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This Is Our Music : Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture /

By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, Sixties politics, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anderson, Iain, 1967-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The resurgence of jazz in the 1950s
  • 2. Free improvisation challenges the jazz canon
  • 3. Free jazz and Black nationalism
  • 4. The musicians and their audience
  • 5. Jazz outside the marketplace
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.