- 392 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses – especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism – that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception. Tackling diverse issues, such as race, class, nationalism, authenticity, irony, parody, gender, art, commercialism, technology, and sound recording, the book's perspective on artistic and cultural practices suggests new ways of thinking about jazz history. It challenges many established scholarly approaches in jazz research, providing a much-needed intervention in the current academic orthodoxies of Jazz Studies.
Perhaps the most striking and distinctive aspect of the book is the extraordinary eclecticism of the wide-ranging but carefully chosen case studies and examples referenced throughout the text, from nineteenth century literature, through 1930s Broadway and film, to twentieth and twenty-first century jazz and popular music.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Persistence of Authenticity
- 1 The Challenge of the Past: Jazz, Parody, and Jazz Discourse
- 2 A Few of My Favorite Things: Analyzing Jazz, Interpreting Irony, Assessing Value
- 3 My Only Sunshine: Jazz, Country Music, George Russell, and Musical Meaning
- 4 Divine Revelations: Keith Jarrett, Acoustic Authenticity, and Romantic Genius
- 5 The Body Electric: Music, Machines, and Mechanical Reproduction
- 6 Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? African American Exceptionalism, European Stereotypes, and the Jazz Studies Debate
- References
- Discography
- Filmography
- Index