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The Art of Jazz
Author | : Alyn Shipton |
Publsiher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781632892331 |
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The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual arts? With album covers that took inspiration from the avant-garde, jazz's primarily African American musicians and their producers sought to challenge and inspire listeners both musically and visually. Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key period in jazz history, from the earliest days of the twentieth century to today's postmodern jazz. Chapters begin with substantive introductions and present the evolution of jazz imagery in all its forms, mirroring the shifting nature of the music itself. With two authoritative features per chapter and over 300 images, The Art of Jazz is a significant contribution to the literature of this intrepid art form.
Jazz and the Philosophy of Art
Author | : Lee B. Brown,David Goldblatt,Theodore Gracyk |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781315280592 |
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Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse topics as minstrelsy, bebop, Voodoo, social and tap dancing, parades, phonography, musical forgeries, and jazz singing, as well as Goodman’s allographic/autographic distinction, Adorno’s critique of popular music, and what improvisation is and is not. The book is organized into three parts. Drawing on innovative strategies adopted to address challenges that arise for the project of defining art, Part I shows how historical definitions of art provide a blueprint for a historical definition of jazz. Part II extends the book’s commitment to social-historical contextualism by exploring distinctive ways that jazz has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. It uses the lens of jazz vocals to provide perspective on racial issues previously unaddressed in the work. It then examines the broader premise that jazz was a socially progressive force in American popular culture. Part III concentrates on a topic that has entered into the arguments of each of the previous chapters: what is jazz improvisation? It outlines a pluralistic framework in which distinctive performance intentions distinguish distinctive kinds of jazz improvisation. This book is a comprehensive and valuable resource for any reader interested in the intersections between jazz and philosophy.
The Art Of Jazz
Author | : Martin Williams |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1981-03-21 |
Genre | : Jazz |
ISBN | : 0306801345 |
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Thinking in Jazz
Author | : Paul F. Berliner |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 2009-10-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226044521 |
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A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
Henri Matisse
Author | : Henri Matisse,John Jacobus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 0500080151 |
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One of the great pioneering masters of twentieth century art, Henri Matisse was an extremely versatile and productive artist. Although he was an outstanding sculptor and draftsman. he was most widely known and loved for his paintings. And his paintings-vibrant, colourful, and diverse-are the focus of this book. John Jacobus, the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, tells the facinating story of Matisse's life, exploring the relation of his work to the art of the past and showing how it contributed to the art of today. In this volumes forty stunning colour plates the artists most important paintings are reproduced, and each is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the page facing the illustration. With 105 illustarions, 40 in colour.
Art from Start to Finish
Author | : Howard S. Becker,Robert R. Faulkner,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2006-06-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226040851 |
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This text gathers together group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.
The Art of Bop Drumming
Author | : John Riley |
Publsiher | : Alfred Music Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 089898890X |
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Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.
Shaping Jazz
Author | : Damon J. Phillips |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781400846481 |
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There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets--in particular, organizations and geography--in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. Damon Phillips considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of diffusion than as the sources of standards. He demonstrates why and when certain geographical references in tune and group titles were considered more desirable. He also explains why a place like Berlin, which produced jazz abundantly from the 1920s to early 1930s, is now on jazz's historical sidelines. Phillips shows the key influences of firms in the recording industry, including how record companies and their executives affected what music was recorded, and why major companies would rerelease recordings under artistic pseudonyms. He indicates how a recording's appeal was related to the narrative around its creation, and how the identities of its firm and musicians influenced the tune's long-run popularity. Applying fascinating ideas about market emergence to a music's commercialization, Shaping Jazz offers a unique look at the origins of a groundbreaking art form.