New Musical Figurations : Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique.

New Musical Figurations exemplifies a dramatically new way of configuring jazz music and history. By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culturea culture that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Radano, Ronald M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Temas:
Braxton, Anthony.
Braxton, Anthony
Jazz > History and criticism.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Musiciens de jazz > États-Unis > Biographies.
Jazz
Jazz musicians
United States
jazz, music, history, anthony braxton, biography, postmodernism, conformity, innovation, experimentation, experimental art, composer, saxophone, virtuoso, chicago, south side, association for the advancement of creative musicians, paris, new york, frederic rzewski, steve reich, philip glass, wesleyan university, mills college, theoretical musical system, chamber groups, opera, composition, black identity, spectacle, race, diversity, expression, nonfiction.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources and Methods; 1 Introduction: A New Musical Balance; 2 Chicago as Aesthetic Center; 3 Musical Assertions of Black Identity; 4 New Musical Convergences: Paris and New York; 5 Defining a Black Vanguard Aesthetic; 6 Black Experimentalism as Spectacle; Epilogue: Jazz Recast; Appendix A: Picture Titles of Compositions Cited; Appendix B: Recordings Cited/Anthony Braxton on Record; Music Index; General Index.

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