The Jazz Cadence of American CultureRobert G. O'Meally Columbia University Press, 1998 - 665 من الصفحات 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. |
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A JazzThe Word | |
Forward Motion An Interview with Benny Golson | |
Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture | |
Black Music as an Art Form | |
Remembering Thelonious Monk When the Music Was Happening Then Hed Get Up and Do His Little Dance | |
Improvisation and the Creative Process | |
Introduction | |
Whats American About America | |
African Art and Motion | |
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire | |
Noise Taps a Historic Route to Joy | |
Introduction | |
Pulp and Circumstance The Story of Jazz in High Places | |
Jazz and American Culture | |
The Golden Age Time Past | |
Double V DoubleTime Bebops Politics of Style | |
Jazz and the White Critic | |
Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo | |
Blues to Be Constitutional A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune | |
The Ellington Programme | |
Introduction | |
Art History and Black Memory Toward a Blues Aesthetic | |
Skyscrapers Airplanes and Airmindedness The Necessary Angel | |
Profiles Putting Something Over Something Else | |
Celebration | |
Black Visual Intonation | |
Improvisation in Jazz | |
Introduction | |
Jazz Music in Motion Dancers and Big Bands | |
Characteristics of Negro Expression | |
It Jus Bes Dat Way Sometime The Sexual Politics of Womens Blues | |
Constructing the Jazz Tradition | |
Other From Noun to Verb | |
Introduction | |
The Blues as Folk Poetry | |
Richard Wrights Blues | |
Preface to Three Plays | |
The Function of the Heroic Image | |
The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form James Weldon Johnsons Prefaces | |
Sound and Sentiment Sound and Symbol | |
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