What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
(Part of the Music of the African Diaspora Series)
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Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520218728
ISBN13:9780520218727
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:425 Pages
Weight:1.86 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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