ISBN:
0226534790
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9780226534787
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9780226534794
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 253 pages)
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
781.65/136
Keywords:
Jazz
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz
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Improvisation (Music)
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Jazz
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Jazz Criticism and interpretation
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Improvisation (Music)
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Improvisation
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Jazz
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Jazz
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Improvisation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Talking to Musicians; 2 Grooving and Feeling; 3 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation; 4 Intermusicality; 5 Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis; 6 Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism; Coda; Notes; Interviews; Recordings; Bibliography; Index
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This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in t
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