Bradley Universal Tonality

The Life and Music of William Parker
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1271-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

Jazz critic and historian Cisco Bradley tells the story of the life and music of bassist and composer William Parker, who for fifty years has been a monumental figure in free jazz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradley, Cisco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. "Flowers Grow in My Room": Realizing a Vision 1
I. Origins
1. Enslavement and Resistance: From West Africa to the Carolinas to Harlem 15
2. Struggle, Beauty, and Survival: Childhood in the South Bronx 41
3. Consciousness: Art, Politics, and Self in the Mind of a Young Man 61
II. Early Work
4. The Loft Scene: Art, Community, and Self-Determination 93
5. "Music That Will Give People Hope": Centering Dance Music with Patricia Nicholson 124
6. "Music Is Supposed to Change People": Working with Cecil Taylor 148
III. Toward the Universal
7. "It Is the Job of the Artist to Incite Political Revolution": In Order to Survive 173
8. Into the Tone World: Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra 194
9. Toward a Universal Sound: William Parker Quartet and Raining on the Moon 216
10. Honoring the Elders: Tribute Projects and Other Bands 239
11. All People Need Truth to Survive: Recent Work and Legacy 261
Appendix: William Parker Discography 279
Notes 291
Bibliography 359
Index 385

Über Autor(innen)

Cisco Bradley is Associate Professor of History at the Pratt Institute, editor of the Jazz Right Now blog, and author of Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Da’ud bin ‘Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia.