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Author Monson, Ingrid.

Title Saying Something : Jazz Improvisation and Interaction.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages)
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Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Talking to Musicians; 2 Grooving and Feeling; 3 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation; 4 Intermusicality; 5 Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis; 6 Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism; Coda; Notes; Interviews; Recordings; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music.
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Subject Improvisation (Music)
Improvisation (Music)
Jazz.
Jazz.
Fine Arts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Monson, Ingrid. Saying Something : Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009 9780226534770
ISBN 9780226534794
0226534790