| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index. |
| Contents |
Monk and his music. A biographical sketch ; Hearing Monk : history, memory, and the making of a jazz giant -- Monk, memory, and the moment of performance. The question of voice ; Three pianists and the Monk legacy : Fred Hersch, Danilo Perez, and Jessica Williams -- Inside and outside : Monk's legacy, neoconservatism, and the avant-garde. Defining a genre : Monk and the struggle to authenticate jazz at the end of the twentieth century ; "Classicism" and performance ; Monk and avant-garde positions ; Loving care : Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and Randy Weston. |
| Summary |
This study combines cultural theory, biography and musical analysis to shed light on Theolonius Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself, Solis showing how Monk's work emerged from the jazz world's fringes to find a central place in its history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monk, Thelonious -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Monk, Thelonious. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Monk, Thelonious -- Influence.
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monk's music Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 9780520252004 (alk. paper) (DLC) 2006102231 |
| ISBN |
9780520940963 ebook |
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0520940962 |
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9780520252004 alkaline paper |
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0520252004 alkaline paper |
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9780520252011 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520252012 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781435611382 (electronic book) |
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1435611381 (electronic book) |
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