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Uptown Conversation
. Ed(S): O'meally, Robert G.; Edwards, Brent Hayes; Griffin, Farah Jasmine
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Description for Uptown Conversation
Paperback. Offers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States. This book contains articles such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns' documentary "Jazz". Editor(s): O'Meally, Robert G.; Edwards, Brent Hayes; Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Num Pages: 544 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: AVGJ; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 784.
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define-it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed ... Read more
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define-it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231123518
SKU
V9780231123518
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About . Ed(S): O'meally, Robert G.; Edwards, Brent Hayes; Griffin, Farah Jasmine
Robert G. O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of American Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Jazz Cadence of American Culture and Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday.Brent Hayes Edwards is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the ... Read more
Reviews for Uptown Conversation
This collection of erudite essarys aptly captures the spirit of those conversations...This must-have tome ups the ante on jazz banter.
John Murph Jazz Times It is also a delightful, accessible, and provocative read
a book that how jazz studies can contribute to a host of other fields. Choice An intellectually stimulating discussion of jazz and its many variations.
Justin ... Read more
John Murph Jazz Times It is also a delightful, accessible, and provocative read
a book that how jazz studies can contribute to a host of other fields. Choice An intellectually stimulating discussion of jazz and its many variations.
Justin ... Read more