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Carla Bley

Author : Amy C. Beal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036360
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Carla Bley written by Amy C. Beal and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments in jazz and experimental music history, Amy C. Beal tenders a long-overdue representation of a major figure in American music. Best known for her jazz opera "Escalator over the Hill," her role in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, and her collaborations with artists such as Jack Bruce, Don Cherry, Robert Wyatt, and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, Bley has successfully maneuvered the field of jazz from highly accessible, tradition-based contexts to commercially unviable, avant-garde works. Beal details the staggering variety in Bley's work as well as her use of parody, quotations, and contradictions, examining the vocabulary Bley has developed throughout her career and highlighting the compositional and cultural significance of her experimentalism. Beal also points to Bley's professional and managerial work as a pioneer in the development of artist-owned record labels, the cofounder and manager of WATT Records, and the cofounder of New Music Distribution Service. Showing her to be not just an artist but an activist who has maintained musical independence and professional control amid the profit-driven, corporation-dominated world of commercial jazz, Beal's straightforward discussion of Bley's life and career will stimulate deeper examinations of her work.

New Music, New Allies

Author : Amy C. Beal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520247558
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book New Music, New Allies written by Amy C. Beal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-07-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Scenes, Songs & Solos

Author : Steve Slagle
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 1936182289
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Scenes, Songs & Solos written by Steve Slagle and published by IPG. This book was released on 2011 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All compositions published by Slagle Music BMI.

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

Author : Richard Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076636
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music written by Richard Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, wide-ranging book on how Miles Davis's seminal 1959 jazz album "Kind of Blue" revolutionized music and culture in the 20th century.

Stopping Time

Author : Paul Bley
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stopping Time written by Paul Bley and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Bley was barely into his twenties when he left Montreal for New York City, yet he had already played with Charlie Parker and subbed for Oscar Peterson at the Alberta Lounge. The piano prodigy had been leading his own bands in Montreal clubs since he was thirteen. Stopping Time is the story of a unique Canadian artist and his odyssey through the most turbulent years in modern jazz. Paul Bley was one of the subjects of Ron Mann's award-winning feature documentary "Imagine the Sound." Now in his sixties, Bley is touring more than ever, and recording with everyone from Kenny Wheeler to Charlie Haden. He lives with his wife, artist Carol Goss, and their family in upstate New York.

Stormy Weather

Author : Linda Dahl
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101282
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Stormy Weather written by Linda Dahl and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the impact of women on the development of jazz and profiles the careers of influential female jazz musicians and singers

Figuring Redemption

Author : Tila L. Kellman
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920747X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Figuring Redemption by : Tila L. Kellman

Download or read book Figuring Redemption written by Tila L. Kellman and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society? Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between its materials and images, largely ignoring relationships beyond the “frame.” However, since the work also encompasses the way in which the interior relationship of the work intersects with sight and how they, together, create the frame, the work also must include the people looking at it. This book explores how the visual art practice of Michael Snow asks the question Who? of the viewers as they interpret what lies before them. Much criticism of Snow objectively analyzes the material interrelationships in his work, ignoring viewer participation, and implicitly giving the artist control of the view. However, what if the “who” is addressed from the perspective of the viewer, who is looking across a gap created by concrete representation, time, place, experience and, perhaps, gender? How then can it remain objective? Following on writers such as Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Figuring Redemption questions the proposal that the contemporary sense of self is “fallen” as a result of modern technology, but can be redeemed in some part by certain kinds of visual art. Original in its positioning of interpretive and critical writing on the side of an embodied viewer, this book rejuvenates Snow criticism by going beyond discussions of materials and operation or of loss and distancing due to mediation. By alternating personal performance writing with objective analysis, the text participates in the destabilizing process of questioning self-recognition that Snow’s practice initiates.

Zora Neale Hurston

Author : Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307430367
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Zora Neale Hurston written by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

As Serious As Your Life

Author : Valerie Wilmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Serious As Your Life written by Valerie Wilmer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002

Author : Andy Gregory
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781857431612
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 written by Andy Gregory and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.

Free Jazz

Author : Jeff Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315311755
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Free Jazz written by Jeff Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’ theses, online texts, and materials in other languages. Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.

Secret Carnival Workers

Author : Paul Haines
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 9780978342609
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Secret Carnival Workers written by Paul Haines and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Carnival Workers is the first volume to bring together Paul Haines' poems, short fiction and music journalism - influenced by jazz, Dada and the Surrealists - in all its complex and creative breadth. Including uncollected fictions, epigrammatic poems and lyrics and writings on music composed between 1955 and 2002, this book finally places a major talent under the spotlight.

The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

Author : Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393034875
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers written by Julie Anne Sadie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.

Talking Jazz

Author : Ben Sidran
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Jazz written by Ben Sidran and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suite of interviews held between 1985 to 1990 of 40 jazz musicians who shaped the current state of art of American jazz including: - Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jay McShann, Red Rodney, Frank Morgan, John Hendricks, Max Roach, Willie Ruff, Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Abdullah Ibrahim, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams, Michel Petrucciani, McCoy Tyner, Max Gordon, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Branford Marsalis, Rudy Van Gelder, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Brown, Joe Sample, Jack DeJohnette, Denny Zeitland, Don Cherry, Carla Bley, Steve Gadd, Donald Fagan, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Grusin, Bob James.

Music Is Rapid Transportation

Author : Lawrence Joseph
Publisher : Charivari Press
ISBN 13 : 1895166047
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Music Is Rapid Transportation written by Lawrence Joseph and published by Charivari Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly alternative look at music lists, not one that merely includes the obvious but shows the connections of popular music to the avant garde, the obscure, the experimental, the quirky, and the adventurous, this edition leads the curious reader towards new musical experiences hitherto unknown to them.

American Music Is

Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 078672854X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book American Music Is written by Nat Hentoff and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in a passionate and streetwise style all his own, Nat Hentoff transports us into the diverse worlds of musicians that hold one thing in common: America. In over sixty pieces Hentoff has assembled a mosaic that creates a vivid picture of the music scene as it leaps into the twenty-first century. From sweeping surveys of the roots of American music to vivid assessments of individual performers (including John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Doc Pomus, Duke Ellington, Willie Nelson, and many more) Hentoff demonstrates once again why he is lauded as "a critic par excellence" (Publishers Weekly). American Music Is compiles the best of his essays into a potent reader, collecting his most illuminating writing on a broad range of topics. For those who love jazz, blues, country, gospel, or folk, American Music Is provides eloquent and powerful insights. For those who love all of them, it is required reading.

The Freedom Principle

Author : John Litweiler
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306803772
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom Principle written by John Litweiler and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1990-03-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornette Coleman's discovery some thirty years ago that his band's music was indeed a "free thing" marked the beginning of a revolution in jazz. From the early free-form experiments, Coleman's dancing blues, and John Coltrane's saxophone cries and sheets of sound, to the brittle, melancholy modes of Miles Davis, vibrant, sophisticated new jazz idioms proliferated. In this critical and historical survey of today's jazz, noted critic John Litweiler traces the evolution of the new music through such artists as Coleman, Coltrane, Davis, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, and others. He also addresses questions such as: Is Free jazz a rejection of the jazz tradition? Are European folk classical musics altering this essentially Afro-American art? Do the principles of Free jazz provide real emotional liberation for the creative musician? This is a solid, informed guide—for new jazz fans and serious listeners alike—to what has, in many ways, been the most productive and most controversial period in the history of jazz.