Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra : Five Musical Years in Ghana /

Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feld, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jazz > Ghana > Accra.
Musik
Jazzforschung
Jazzmusiker
Jazz > Motiv
Jazz musicians.
Jazz.
Musiciens de jazz > Ghāna > Accra.
Jazz > Ghāna > Accra > 2001-2010 > Histoire et critique.
Jazz musicians > Ghana > Accra.
Jazz > Ghana > Accra > 2001-2010 > History and criticism.
Afrika
Accra
Ghana > Accra.
Music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acoustemology in Accra : on jazz cosmopolitanism
  • Guy Warren/Ghanaba : from Afro-jazz to Handel via Max Roach
  • Nii Noi Nortey : from pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane
  • Nii Otoo Annan : from toads to polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali
  • Por por : from honk horns to jazz funerals via New Orleans
  • Beyond diasporic intimacy.

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