Noise orders : jazz, improvisation, and architecture /

In Noise Orders, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture can be strongly influenced by jazz improvisation. Comparing artists and architects with individuals and groups in jazz-including Piet Mondr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, David, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Music and architecture.
Jazz > Analysis, appreciation.
Improvisation (Music)
Musique et architecture.
Improvisation (Musique)
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Compositional imperatives: Mondrian and boogie-woogie
  • What is the body supposed to be doing? John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Now's the time: temporalities of Louis Armstrong and Le Corbusier
  • Function, flexibility, and improvisation: the AACM and Mies Van Der Rohe
  • Diagrams, conduction, and the contemporary city.

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