| Description |
xii, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. [This book] is an extended riff on "The Burton Greene Affair," exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a distinct form of black cultural nationalism, and the complex engagement with and disavowal of homoeroticism that bridges the two. Fred Moten focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance--culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself--is improvisation"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
The sentimenal avant-garde. Duke Ellington's sound of love ; Voices/forces ; Sounds in florescence (Cecil Taylor Floating Garden) ; Playing with Eric -- In the break. Tragedy, elegy ; The dark lady and the sexual cut ; German invasion ; 'Round the five spot -- Visible music. Baldwin's Baraka, his mirror stage, the sound of his gaze ; Black mo'nin' in the sound of the photograph ; Tonality of totality -- Resistance of the object : Adrian Piper's theatricality. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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Radicalism -- United States.
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Radicalism. |
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United States. |
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African American aesthetics.
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African American aesthetics. |
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African American arts.
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African American arts. |
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Arts -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Arts -- Political aspects. |
| ISBN |
0816641005 paperback acid-free paper |
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0816640998 acid-free paper |
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9780816640997 acid-free paper |
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9780816641000 paperback acid-free paper |
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