Jazz Consciousness - Paul Austerlitz

Jazz Consciousness

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2005
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-6782-6 (ISBN)
22,95 inkl. MwSt
Grounded essays on jazz as a unifying and transcendent force.
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz-and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds it-embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. Fans and musicians have made this claim before, but Austerlitz is the first to provide a scholarly basis for it. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the U.S. and then broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora and in very different transnational scenes, from the Dominican Republic to Finland.

Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central chapters is devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band of Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks, while the final chapter includes an extensive interview with the seminal drummer Milford Graves, one of Austerlitz's mentors, who holds that music profoundly influences our biorhythms and indeed shapes our thoughts.

Paul Austerlitz is an ethnomusicologist, musician, and author of Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity (1997). He is Assistant Professor of Music and Africana Studies at Brown University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.11.2005
Zusatzinfo 15 figs. 14 B&W illus. 6 colour plates.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10 0-8195-6782-5 / 0819567825
ISBN-13 978-0-8195-6782-6 / 9780819567826
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