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John Coltrane, l'amour suprême

Autor: Franck Médioni

Número de Páginas: 249

John Coltrane, l’amour suprême est la biographie la plus complète existante en France à ce jour. Elle se distingue de la biographie américaine de référence, celle de Lewis Porter (John Coltrane, sa vie, sa musique), en développant deux aspects essentiels : Coltrane politique et Coltrane mystique. Franck Médioni analyse ses rencontres marquantes (Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk), met des coups de projecteur sur ses albums importants (Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme). Il inscrit John Coltrane dans son époque, dans l’histoire du jazz, et questionne son message, son héritage. Journaliste et écrivain, Franck Médioni est le producteur, entre 1995 et 2014, de l’émission hebdomadaire "Jazzistisques" sur France Musique et collaborateur régulier pour France Culture et FIP. Il est l’auteur de nombreux livres consacrés au jazz dont Le tour du jazz en 80 écrivains illustré par Pierre Alechinsky, ou Sound of surprise (Le Mot et le Reste).

John Coltrane

Autor: Vincent Cotro

Número de Páginas: 204

L'univers de John Coltrane

Autor: Guillon Roland Guillon

John Coltrane

Autor: Lewis Porter

Número de Páginas: 448

John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force. This biography presents interviews with Coltrane, photos, genealogical documents, and musical analysis that offers a fresh view of Coltrane's genius. It explores the events of Coltrane's life and offers an insightful look into his musical practices.

L'univers de John Coltrane

Autor: Roland Guillon

Número de Páginas: 84

Coltrane

Autor: Paolo Parisi

Número de Páginas: 130

'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...' John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, his raw talent and passion for experimentation inaugurated a new movement in music. Positioned at the beating heart of the 50s and 60s jazz world, Coltrane and his quartet created some of the most innovative and expressive music of the age, including the hit album My Favorite Things and the landmark work A Love Supreme. Juxtaposing scenes from Coltrane's personal life - his military career, addictions, political activism and love affairs - against snapshots of his major recordings, Coltrane evokes an extraordinary life and the momentous historical events that formed its backdrop. It is a graphic novel that echoes his work in its structure and style, and forms a testament to a pioneer and legend, whose music continues to inspire to this day.

John Coltrane

Autor: Lewis Porter

Número de Páginas: 368

Biographie de John Coltrane et analyse de son oeuvre.

John Coltrane

Autor: Fujioka Yasuhiro , Lewis Porter , Yoh-ichi Hamada

Número de Páginas: 424

A gold mine of photos, mostly unpublished. Musician, song title, and recording company indexes are included. Produced with the cooperation of the Coltrane family and of recording companies and researchers worldwide, this is the definitive reference on one of the great artists of our century.

John Coltrane

Autor: Francis Marmande , Franck Médioni

Número de Páginas: 356

Quarante ans après sa mort, survenue le 17 juillet 1967, quatre-vingts musiciens de jazz, toutes générations, toutes nationalités, tous styles confondus, rendent hommage à John Coltrane. Figure majeure de l'histoire de la musique noire américaine, le saxophoniste ténor et soprano John Coltrane est l'un des musiciens phares du XXe siècle. Un parcours fulgurant, une quête permanente, une vie dévolue à la musique, placée sous le signe de la plus haute exigence. A la tête de son quartette historique, il a porté la musique, le jazz, à un point d'incandescence rare. Il s'agit donc d'hommages, d'impressions, de réflexions, de souvenirs, de mémoire, d'histoire, d'amour. réunis par Franck Médioni, ces témoignages inédits forment comme un portrait polyphonique de John Coltrane.

John Coltrane, la musique sans raison

Autor: Michel Arcens

Número de Páginas: 220

De quoi s'agit-il donc dans ces pages ? De rien moins que de " comprendre ", au sens premier, Coltrane et sa musique et, à travers celui-ci et celle-là (c'est tout un, Arcens le démontre), d'atteindre à l'ipséité même du jazz. Vaste programme pour lequel l'auteur mobilise écrivains, poètes, philosophes - singulièrement Michel Henry et sa phénoménologie. Tant il est vrai, assure-t-il, qu'" une philosophie esthétique, une philosophie tout entière fondée sur l'esthétique est, au fond d'elle déjà, une phénoménologie. " C'est aussi un voyage auquel Michel Arcens convie son lecteur... et qui n'est pas de tout repos. II se mérite. II est de l'ordre du pèlerinage, semé d'aspérités, d'apories contournées avec une maîtrise confondante. Mais la clarté nouménale, dans le sens husserlien du terme, sur laquelle il débouche, vaut qu'on l'entreprenne et le mène à son terme. Impossible, après la lecture de ce livre, d'écouter John Coltrane (ou n'importe quel autre musicien de jazz) avec les oreilles d'antan.

Jazz Theory – Contemporary Improvisation, Transcription and Composition

Autor: Ron Westray

Número de Páginas: 745

This course is designed to present and develop jazz arranging and compositional principles. In preparation for successful improvisation, composing and transcription, a wide range of theoretical topics are presented. The stylistic considerations of jazz improvisation and composition require an extensive and working knowledge of jazz theory, and mastery of diatonic, bitonal, poly-tonal and atonal theoretical maximums and processes – including the refining of the [imitation] transcription process towards theoretical justification and conventional usage.

Coltrane

Autor: Ben Ratliff

Número de Páginas: 328

John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs? In this deftly written, riveting study, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff answers these questions and examines the life of Coltrane, the acclaimed band leader and deeply spiritual man who changed the face of jazz music. Ratliff places jazz among other art forms and within the turbulence of American social history, and he places Coltrane not just among jazz musicians but among the greatest American artists.

John Coltrane

Autor: Jean-pierre Jackson

Número de Páginas: 120

La vie de John Coltrane, voix majeure du saxophone, est à bien des égards un roman d’apprentissage, forgé au gré des rencontres, des expériences et des grands musiciens qui l’ont adoubé : Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis et Thelonious Monk. Ayant débuté par la recherche de la perfection instrumentale à partir des formes musicales qui lui préexistent – il admire et imite d’abord le parfait apollinien, Johnny Hodges – il franchit ensuite tous les degrés qui l’amènent au dionysiaque. Ce nouvel ouvrage de Jean-Pierre Jackson, qui arrive après ses biographies remarquées de Charlie Parker ou Keith Jarrett, nous enseigne que par la transe musicale, le dessaisissement de soi, l’abandon des formes préétablies, Coltrane vise progressivement à atteindre l’universel, l’être profond du monde. Apprécier la beauté de la geste coltranienne, au-delà de tel ou tel accomplissement, c’est percevoir à chaque étape de son déroulement le mystère de la création à l’oeuvre. Ce n’est pas l’argent ou l’ambition qui l’animent, c’est la quête d’un sens, de l’Un originaire, d’un amour suprême qui par nature est musique.

An Ethics of Improvisation

Autor: Tracey Nicholls

Número de Páginas: 257

An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an examination of current social discourses about “the political” and an account of what social justice could look like. From there, the book considers what a politically just society’s obligations are to people who do not want to be part of the political community, establishing respect for difference as a fundamental principle of social interaction. What this respect for difference entails when applied to questions of the aesthetic value of music is aesthetic pluralism, the book argues. Improvised jazz, in particular, embodies different values than those of the Western classical tradition, and must be judged on its own terms if it is to be respected. Having established the need for aesthetic pluralism in order to respect the diversity of musical traditions, the argument turns back to political theory, and considers what distinct resources improvisation theory—the theorizing of the social context in which ...

Encyclopedia of African American Music

Autor: Tammy L. Kernodle , Horace Maxile , Emmett G. Price Iii

Número de Páginas: 1267

African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and dreams through spirituals. Inspired by African civilization and culture, as well as religion, art, literature, and social issues, this influential, joyous, tragic, uplifting, challenging, and enduring music evolved into many diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, swing, and hip hop. Providing a lyrical history of our nation, this groundbreaking encyclopedia, the first of its kind, showcases all facets of African American music including folk, religious, concert and popular styles. Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others. Offering balanced representation of key individuals, groups, and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and other perspectives not usually approached, this...

The Art of God

Autor: Jimi Calhoun

Número de Páginas: 152

In The Art of God, pastor and musician Jimi Calhoun suggests that the master artist, God, programmed diversity into every aspect of the natural order. Today more of us than ever live in closer proximity to people once viewed as different. The multicultural conversation of the recent past has proven to be inadequate to address the present intercultural reality in which we live. The question then becomes, how will we live together? Quite often the presence of difference results in the avoidance of the other. Many accept this as simply a natural occurrence, but in the world of art, difference does not always trigger division. Art encompasses multiple disciplines and forms. Art welcomes diversity within its borders. This book traces the evolution of art and music, then extracts principles from a musical motif to encourage the development of an artistic worldview that recognizes the beauty residing in everything and everybody.

Black Power Encyclopedia

Autor: Akinyele Umoja , Karin L. Stanford , Jasmin A. Young

Número de Páginas: 1052

An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on the rhetoric and practice of nonviolence and social and political goal of integration, Black Power was defined by the promotion of Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and the practice of armed self-defense. Black Power changed communities, curriculums, and culture in the United States and served as an inspiration for social justice internationally. This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics, culture, and identity. Cross-disciplinary and broad in its approach, Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States some 50 years ago. The ...

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records

Autor: Ashley Kahn

Número de Páginas: 349

"A jazz-lover's delight."—Ray Olson, Booklist Noted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the history of popular music. “Kahn mingles engaging stories of corporate politics with insider accounts of music-making and anecdotal takes on particular albums. His history of Impulse is also the story of the genesis of an American art form and the evolution of the record industry through the tumultuous 1960s—and will compel readers to seek out this label’s masterful albums,” says Publishers Weekly in a starred review. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “a swinging read,” adding that “Kahn covers all the aesthetic, business, social, and historical bases with crisp economy.” Don’t miss the exciting inside scoop behind some of the most enduring masterpieces of jazz!

Monument Eternal

Autor: Franya J. Berkman

Número de Páginas: 160

Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels. In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist.

Encyclopedia of the Sixties

Autor: Abbe A. Debolt , James S. Baugess

Número de Páginas: 960

Comedian Robin Williams said that if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. This encyclopedia documents the people, places, movements, and culture of that memorable decade for those who lived it and those who came after. Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture surveys the 1960s from January 1960 to December 1969. Nearly 500 entries cover everything from the British television cult classic The Avengers to the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. The two-volume work also includes biographies of artists, architects, authors, statesmen, military leaders, and cinematic stars, concentrating on what each individual accomplished during the 1960s, with brief postscripts of their lives beyond the period. There was much more to the Sixties than flower power and LSD, and the entries in this encyclopedia were compiled with an eye to providing a balanced view of the decade. Thus, unlike works that emphasize only the radical and revolutionary aspects of the period to the exclusion of everything else, these volumes include the political and cultural Right, taking a more academic than nostalgic approach and helping to fill a gap in the popular understanding of...

John Coltrane (méditation)

Autor: Zéno Bianu

Número de Páginas: 110

Considéré comme le saxophoniste le plus révolutionnaire de l’histoire du jazz, John Coltrane n’a cessé de mener une quête fascinante, portant sa musique à un niveau d’expression jamais atteint. Il a inventé une modernité radicale, creusant paradoxalement dans les traditions de l’Inde et de l’Afrique. Zéno Bianu nous livre un long chorus, tendre, sauvage, foisonnant. Un torrent de notes entrelacées au milieu des étoiles. Zéno Bianu fut l’un des signataires du Manifeste électrique, qui bouleversa la poésie francophone des années 1970. Il est l’auteur d’une œuvre multiforme, publiée chez Gallimard, Actes Sud, Fata Morgana et par Le Castor Astral. Il est entré en « Poésie/Gallimard » pour célébrer les 50 ans de la collection. « Dans une époque vouée à la déréliction et à un renoncement hypnotique, la poésie de Zéno BIanu s’impose comme une ardente rupture, une submersion féérique. » - France culture « Un fertile faiseur de vers contemporain » - Jazz news

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

Número de Páginas: 833

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided. This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.

Coltrane's Cosmic Symphony: A Journey Through the Sound of the Beyond

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 156

In this captivating biography, we embark on a journey into the extraordinary life and music of John Coltrane, a visionary saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who transcended the boundaries of jazz and left an indelible mark on the music world. From his humble beginnings in Hamlet, North Carolina, to his meteoric rise as a jazz icon, we trace the evolution of a musical genius who constantly pushed the boundaries of his art. Coltrane's music was a symphony of innovation and experimentation, a seamless blend of bebop, modal jazz, and free jazz that created a sound that was uniquely his own. Coltrane's musical journey was deeply intertwined with his spiritual quest, a relentless search for meaning and enlightenment. His music was a reflection of his inner world, an expression of his struggles, triumphs, and profound connection to the divine. Through his music, Coltrane sought to transcend the limitations of the physical world and connect with the infinite. Beyond his musical genius, Coltrane was a symbol of hope and inspiration for the Civil Rights Movement. He used his platform to speak out against racial injustice and inequality, becoming a beacon of change in a turbulent era. His ...

Popular Music

Autor: Roman Iwaschkin

Número de Páginas: 675

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.

Beyond Sketches of Spain

Autor: Benjamin Fraser

Número de Páginas: 241

Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenç "Tete" Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for discordant crashes, and a development of highly original compositions. Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework.

Saxophone Colossus

Autor: Aidan Levy

Número de Páginas: 865

**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** ​**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with...

African American Lives

Autor: Henry Louis Gates , Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Número de Páginas: 1054

"The first book of its kind since 1982's Dictionary of American Negro Biography, African American Lives leads us into a new era of African American biographical scholarship. In collaboration with Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned Societies, and with contributions from over four hundred scholars and experts in many fields, the editors and their staff at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University have collected in this single volume the lives of many of the most important and most interesting names in African American history."--BOOK JACKET.

CMJ New Music Report

Número de Páginas: 64

CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

CMJ New Music Report

Número de Páginas: 56

CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis & His Circle

Autor: Masaya Yamaguchi

Número de Páginas: 662

Masaya Yamaguchi is Japanese-born musician and educator, who lives in the US. This book grew out of research Yamaguchi did on Miles' autobiography, which was written by Quincy Troupe from hours of transcribed interviews with Miles. Yamaguchi obtained 1200 pages of the transcripts and has meticulously and painstakingly researched and checked the contents. He finds various errors and anomalies, and corrects the information with strong evidence. The book is full of images of transcript pages (which include content not seen in the autobiography), letters and memos. There's plenty of stuff about Miles'1980s music, especially on the guitarists Miles used during this era (thelastmiles.com/library_milesdavis_4/).

Critical Companion to Toni Morrison

Autor: Carmen Gillespie

Número de Páginas: 497

Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author. This work examines Morrison's life and writing, featuring critical analyses of her work and themes, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.

Jazz from Detroit

Autor: Mark Stryker

Número de Páginas: 359

Jazz from Detroit explores the city’s pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker makes Detroit jazz come alive as he draws out significant connections between the players, eras, styles, and Detroit’s distinctive history. Stryker’s story starts in the 1940s and ’50s, when the auto industry created a thriving black working and middle class in Detroit that supported a vibrant nightlife, and exceptional public school music programs and mentors in the community like pianist Barry Harris transformed the city into a jazz juggernaut. This golden age nurtured many legendary musicians—Hank, Thad, and Elvin Jones, Gerald Wilson, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, and others. As the city’s fortunes change, Stryker turns his spotlight toward often overlooked but prescient musician-run cooperatives and self-determination groups of the 1960s and ’70s, such as the Strata Corporation and Tribe. In more recent decades, the city’s culture of...

Apocalypse Jukebox

Autor: Edward Whitelock , David Janssen

Número de Páginas: 305

From its indefinite beginnings through its broad commercialization and endless reinterpretation, American rock-and-roll music has been preoccupied with an end-of-the-world mentality that extends through the whole of American popular music. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Edward Whitelock and David Janssen trace these connections through American music genres, uncovering a mix of paranoia and hope that characterizes so much of the nation’s history. From the book’s opening scene, set in the American South during a terrifying 1833 meteor shower, the sense of doom is both palpable and inescapable; a deep foreboding that shadows every subsequent development in American popular music and, as Whitelock and Janssen contend, stands as a key to understanding and explicating America itself. Whitelock and Janssen examine the diversity of apocalyptic influences within North American recorded music, focusing in particular upon a number of influential performers, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Devo, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. In Apocalypse Jukebox, Whitelock and Janssen reveal apocalypse as a permanent and central part of the American character while establishing...

The Coltrane Church

Autor: Nicholas Louis Baham Iii

Número de Páginas: 277

The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand. Celebrating the spirituality of the late jazz innovator and his music, the storefront church emerged during the demise of black-owned jazz clubs in San Francisco, and at a time of growing disillusionment with counter-culture spirituality following the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. For 50 years, the church has effectively fought redevelopment, environmental racism, police brutality, mortgage foreclosures, religious intolerance, gender disparity and the corporatization of jazz. This critical history is the first book-length treatment of an extraordinary African-American church and community institution.

Quand Platon écoute les Beatles sur son iPod

Autor: Normand Baillargeon , Christian Boissinot

Número de Páginas: 220

Oubliez Woodstock. Oubliez Live Aid. Vous avez en mains le livre-événement de la musique populaire. Rien de moins! Après avoir planché en secret pendant des années sur une machine à explorer le temps, nous avons pu rassembler les plus grands artistes et philosophes de l'histoire, qui ont accepté de se joindre à la fête et de réfléchir ensemble sur les répercussions de la musique pop dans nos vies. Ce concert unique réunit sur la même scène Platon, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Deleuze, Debord, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, les Beatles, The Clash, Lady Gaga, Claude Léveillée, Richard Séguin, Céline Dion, Malajube et tant d'autres. Bon concert!

Historia de la música negra norteamericana

Autor: Eileen Southern

Número de Páginas: 704

Esta obra es una completa y excelente guía para conocer y apreciar los distintos géneros y los múltiples estilos que definen la música afro-americana de los Estados Unidos. Siguiendo la historia de la música negra desde su origen africano hasta la época actual, a través de sus manifestaciones en la América colonial y después en los Estados Unidos, la obra incluye innumerables datos, así como documentos gráficos y musicales que, en su conjunto, conforman uno de los estudios más completos sobre el tema traducido a lengua castellana.

Jazz and Death

Autor: Walter Van De Leur

Número de Páginas: 161

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived. Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes, ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.

The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

Autor: Peter Lavezzoli

Número de Páginas: 488

Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an

CMJ New Music Report

Número de Páginas: 60

CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.