| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, music. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
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Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jazz -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Jazz. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Improvisation (Music)
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Improvisation (Music) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia). Saying something. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1996 0226534774 (DLC) 96023224 (OCoLC)34788101 |
| ISBN |
9780226534794 (electronic book) |
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0226534790 (electronic book) |
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0226534774 (alkaline paper) |
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0226534782 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226534787 |
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9780226534770 (hardback) |
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