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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Fischlin; Ajay Heble |
ISBN: | 0819566810 9780819566812 0819566829 9780819566829 |
OCLC Number: | 52942791 |
Description: | xvi, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The other side of nowhere : jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue / Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble -- A composition on improvisation / Michael Snow -- Harmonic anatomy : women in improvisation / Pauline Oliveros -- "Navigable structures and transforming mirrors" : improvisation and interactivity / Dana Reason -- Transmissions of an interculture : pan-African jazz and intercultural improvisation / Jason Stanyek -- Improvised music after 1950 : Afrological and Eurological perspectives / George E. Lewis -- Afterword to "Improvised music after 1950" : the changing same / George E. Lewis -- Improvising in a different clave : Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas / Michael Dessen -- " ... A way out of no way" : jazz, hip-hop, and black social improvisation / Mark Anthony Neal -- Playing like a girl : the queer laughter of the feminist improvising group / Julie Dawn Smith -- Bordering on community : improvising women improvising women-in-jazz / Sherrie Tucker -- Improvising character : jazz, the actor, and protocols of improvisation / Marshall Soules -- Improvisation and imitation : Marlon Brando as jazz actor / Krin Gabbard -- Cutting sides : jazz record producers and improvisation / Michael Jarrett -- The discourse of a dysfunctional drummer : collaborative dissonances, improvisation, and cultural theory / Eddie Prévost -- Paracritical hinge / Nathaniel Mackey -- Out of nowhere : meditations on Deleuzian music, anti-cadential strategies, and endpoints in improvisation / John Corbett -- Toward further dialogue : a bibliography on improvisation / Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and Benjamin Lefebvre. |
Series Title: | Music/culture. |
Responsibility: | edited by Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"Academic theorizing about jazz has traditionally lagged far behind the inspired playing of it with the field of jazz writing dominated by magazine journalists and social commentators. This has often been a relief, making the literature of jazz unburdened by the obfusacatory language and petty point-scoring of the academic establishment. Since 1990 some excellent jazz academicians have emerged such as Krin Gabbard, Graham Lock, Ingrid Monson, Nathaniel Mackey, Paul Berliner, and George E. Lewis, who incorporate the best of the jazz writing tradition whilst riffing a new discourse using the resources of cultural theory. Some of them are represented here in this excellent comprehensive collection of writings about the politics and aesthetics of improvisation."--Alan Rice, Journal of American Studies"The Other Side of Nowhere is an important and wide-ranging contribution to the growing fields of improvisation studies and cultural theory. It provides a fascinating array of contributions from musicians, artists, scholars, critics and promoters. The book's in-depth treatment of an often marginalized cultural and musical form and its timely interdisciplinary approach to its subject make it extremely significant."--David Borgo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at San Diego Read more...

