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University of California Press
- Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, this collections seeks out those people and pieces missing from the established narratives to explore what they can tell us about the way jazz has been defined and its history has been told.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part One: Categories
- Chapter 3. The Humor of Jazz
- pp. 49-69
- Part Two: Practices
- Part Three: Education
- Contributors
- pp. 285-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951358
Related ISBN(s)
9780520271036
MARC Record
OCLC
809268268
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No