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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

Author : Robert O'Meally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231104494
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Cadence of American Culture written by Robert O'Meally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, O'Meally confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in unexpected ways. Organized thematically, these provocative pieces include an essay considering poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of a recent melding of jazz music and dance, Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. From Stanley Crouch to August Wilson to Jacqui Malone, the plurality of voices gathered here reflects the variety of expression within jazz. The book's opening section sketches the overall place of jazz in America. Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner unpack the word jazz and its register, Albert Murray considers improvisation in music and life, Amiri Baraka argues that white critics misunderstand jazz, and Stanley Crouch cogently dissects the intersections of jazz and mainstream American democratic institutions. After this, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring jazz and the visual arts, dance, sports, history, memory, and literature. Ann Douglas writes on jazz's influence on the design and construction of skyscrapers in the 1920s and '30s, Zora Neale Hurston considers the significance of African-American dance, Michael Eric Dyson looks at the jazz of Michael Jordan's basketball game, and Hazel Carby takes on the sexual politics of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith's blues. The Jazz Cadence offers a wealth of insight and information for scholars, students, jazz aficionados, and any reader wishing to know more about this music form that has put its stamp on American culture more profoundly than any other in the twentieth century.

Antagonistic Cooperation

Author : Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548214
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Antagonistic Cooperation written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Finalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as “antagonistic cooperation.” Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O’Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics. From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community. O’Meally’s readings of these artists and their work emphasize how they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy.

Jazz in American Culture

Author : Burton W. Peretti
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461713048
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Jazz in American Culture written by Burton W. Peretti and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively that this distinctive American music has been a key thread in the tapestry of the nation’s culture. The music itself, its players and its audience, and the critical debates it has prompted, tell us much about changes in American life since 1910. Mr. Peretti traces the emergence of jazz out of ragtime during a time of tumultuous growth of cites and industries. In the 1920s jazz flourished and symbolized the cultural struggle between modernists and traditionalists. As American sought reassurance and self-esteem during the Great Depression, jazz reached new levels of sophistication in the Swing Era. World War II encouraged rapid changes in popular tastes, and in the postwar decades jazz became both a voice of a globally dominant America and an avant-garde music reflecting social and political turmoil. Today, Mr. Peretti concludes, jazz symbolizes important cultural trends and enjoys a new prestige in a complex musical scene. Jazz in American Culture tells a peculiarly American story, evaluating the music as well as those who created it, and opening new perspectives on our cultural history.

Antagonistic Cooperation

Author : Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231189187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Antagonistic Cooperation written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Music Demanded Action : Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz -- We Are All a Collage : Armstrong's Operatic Blues, Bearden's Black Odyssey, and Morrison's Jazz -- The "Open Corner" of Black Community and Creativity : From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison -- Hare and Bear : The Racial Profiles of Satchmo's Smile -- The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be Unfinished.

Jazz in American Culture

Author : Peter Townsend
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578063246
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Jazz in American Culture written by Peter Townsend and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America

Uptown Conversation

Author : Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123507
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Uptown Conversation written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Uptown Conversation' asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. The essays illustrate how for more than a century jazz has initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures, inspiring musicians, filmmakers,painters and poets.

Miles Davis and American Culture

Author : Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982386
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Miles Davis and American Culture written by Gerald Lyn Early and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His music provoked discussion of art versus commerce, the relationship of artist to audience, and the definition of jazz itself. Whether the topic is race, fashion, or gender relations, the cultural debate about Davis's life remains a confluence.".

What Makes That Black?

Author : Luana
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483454797
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book What Makes That Black? written by Luana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti--Backcover.

Jazz/Not Jazz

Author : David Ake
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271041
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Jazz/Not Jazz written by David Ake and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jazz/Not Jazz is an innovative and inspiring investigation of jazz as it is practiced, theorized and taught today. Taking their cues from current debates within jazz scholarship, the contributors to this collection open up jazz studies to a transdisciplinarity that is rich in its diversity of approaches, candid in its appraisals of critical worth, transparent in its ideological suppositions, and catholic in its subjects/objects of inquiry.”—Kevin Fellezs, author of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion. “This collection is a delight. Each essay opens up some previously ignored aspect of jazz history. Anyone who knows the New Jazz Studies and is wise enough to acquire this book will immediately devour it.”—Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture. “This volume is truly one of a kind, eminently readable and filled with new insights. It will make an extremely important contribution to jazz literature.”—Jeffrey Taylor, Director, H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College.

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Author : Jon Seebart Panish
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604737295
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture written by Jon Seebart Panish and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living with Music

Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375760237
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Living with Music written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O’Meally has collected the very best of Ellison’s inspired, exuberant jazz writings in this unique anthology.

American Culture in the 1920s

Author : Susan Currell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748630856
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book American Culture in the 1920s written by Susan Currell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.

Hard Bop Academy

Author : Alan Goldsher
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634037931
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Hard Bop Academy written by Alan Goldsher and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was one of the most enduring, popular, reliable and vital small bands in modern jazz history. Blakey was not only a distinguished, inventive and powerful drummer, but along with Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, he was one of jazz's foremost talent scouts. The musicians who flowed seamlessly in and out of this constantly evolving collective during its 36-year run were among the most important artists not just of their eras, but of any era. Though their respective innovations were vital to the evolution of bebop, hard bop and neo bop, the recorded work of the Messengers sidemen has never been properly analyzed. Until now. Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers critically examines the multitude of gifted artists who populated the many editions of the Jazz Messengers. In addition to dissecting the sidemen's most consequential work with Blakey's band, jazz musician and acclaimed novelist Alan Goldsher offers up engaging profiles of everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Terence Blanchard to Hank Mobley to Wayne Shorter to Horace Silver to Keith Jarrett to Curtis Fuller to Steve Davis. And that's only the beginning. Goldsher conducted over 30 interviews with surviving graduates of Blakey's Hard Bop Academy, many of whom spoke at length of their tenure with the legendary "Buhaina" for the first time. Alan Goldsher is a bassist who has recorded with Janet Jackson, Digable Planets, Cypress Hill and Naughty By Nature. His writing has been published in Bass Player, Tower Pulse, Sport and BasketBull: Chicago Bulls Magazine. Goldsher's debut novel, Jam, was published in 2002 by Permanent Press. He lives in Chicago. Hardcover.

African American Culture and Society After Rodney King

Author : Josephine Metcalf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317184386
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book African American Culture and Society After Rodney King written by Josephine Metcalf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period allows reflection on the shifting state of race in America, considering these stark realities as well as the election of the country's first black president, a growing African American middle class, and the black authors and artists significantly contributing to America's cultural output. Divided into six sections, (The African American Criminal in Culture and Media; Slave Voices and Bodies in Poetry and Plays; Representing African American Gender and Sexuality in Pop-Culture and Society; Black Cultural Production in Music and Dance; Obama and the Politics of Race; and Ongoing Realities and the Meaning of 'Blackness') this book is an engaging collection of chapters, varied in critical content and theoretical standpoints, linked by their intellectual stimulation and fascination with African American life, and questioning how and to what extent American culture and society is 'past' race. The chapters are united by an intertwined sense of progression and regression which addresses the diverse dynamics of continuity and change that have defined shifts in the African American experience over the past twenty years.

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

Author : Eric Porter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232968
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Jazz? written by Eric Porter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of jazz traces its evolution through the words of the artists themselves, examining how the musicians actively shaped the institutional structure through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed. Simultaneous.

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet

Author : Randall Sandke
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086990X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet written by Randall Sandke and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was created and largely driven by African Americans, but rather posits that black culture has been more open to outside influences than most commentators are likely to admit. The majority of jazz writers, past and present, have embraced an exclusionary viewpoint. Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet begins by looking at many of these writers, from the birth of jazz history up to the present day, to see how and why their views have strayed from the historical record. This book challenges many widely held beliefs regarding the history and nature of jazz in an attempt to free jazz of the socio-political baggage that has s

Contemporary Black American Cinema

Author : Mia Mask
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415523222
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Black American Cinema written by Mia Mask and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson's and Sidney Poitier's star vehicles to Lee Daniels's directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.