Heble / Wallace People Get Ready

The Future of Jazz Is Now!
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9972-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice

Jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and 1970s has continued to animate the avant-garde, Free Jazz, fusion, and other forms of this lively, always-evolving music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heble, Ajay

Wallace, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. "People Get Ready": The Future of Jazz is Now! / Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace 1

Part I. Beyond Categories: Histories and Mysteries

1. "Now is the Time": Voicing against the Grain of Orality / Aldon Lynn Nielsen 31

2. The Antiquity of the Avant-Garde: A Meditation on a Comment by Duke Ellington / John Szwed 44

3. Listening Trust: The Everyday Politics of George Lewis's "Dream Team" / Julie Dawn Smith and Ellen Waterman 59

4. Jeanne Lee's Voice / Eric Porter 88

5. Kick Out the Jazz! / Rob Wallace 111

Part II. Crisis in New Music? Vanishing Venues and the Future of Experimentation

6. Days of Breads and Roses / Marc Ribot 141

7. Subsidy, Advocacy, Theory: Experimental Music in the Academy, in New York City, and Beyond / Tamar Barzel 153

8. Subsidizing the Experimental Muse:Rereading Ribot / John Brackett 166

9. One Musician Writes about Creative-Music Venues in Toronto / Scott Thomson 175

10. Somewhere There: Contemporary Music, Performance Spaces, and Cultural Policy / Alan Stanbridge 184

Part III. Sound Check

The Jazz Photography of Thomas King 197

Part IV. Get Ready: Jazz Futures

11. Black Jazz in the Digital Age / Greg Tate 217

12. Improvising Digital Culture / DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer 225

13. Ancient to the Future: Celebrating Forty Years of the AACM / Douglas Ewart, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Wadada Leo Smith, and Corey Wilkes 244

14. People, Don't Get Ready: Improvisation, Democracy, and Hope / Tracy McMullen 265

Works Cited 281

Contributors 295

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Ajay Heble is Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at University of Guelph in Ontario. He is the author of Landing On The Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice and a coeditor of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue. Heble is the founder and artistic director of the Guelph Jazz Festival and a founding editor of the online peer-reviewed journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation.Rob Wallace is a teacher, writer, and musician. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is the author of Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism. As a percussionist, he can be heard on recordings from the pfMentum and Ambiances Magnétiques record labels.