Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.
Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created “space music” as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth.
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music. By thoroughly examining the astro-black mythology that Sun Ra espoused, Youngquist masterfully demonstrates that he offered both a holistic response to a planet desperately in need of new visions and vibrations and a new kind of political activism that used popular culture to advance social change. In a nation obsessed with space and confused about race, Sun Ra aimed not just at assimilation for the socially disfranchised but even more at a wholesale transformation of American society and a more creative, egalitarian world.
Автор: Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira Название: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz ISBN: 019532000X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195320008 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931, and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations. We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the cool jazz that became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks. Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career. Highly accessible and vigorously researched, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.
Автор: Williams Название: The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter ISBN: 1107680913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107680913 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d`Urfey through to Kanye West.
Автор: Heile Bjvrn, Elsdon Peter, Doctor Jenny Название: Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen ISBN: 0199347662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199347667 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6366.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media, covering its role across a plethora of technologies from film and television to recent developments in online media, and featuring the music of such legends as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Pat Metheny.
Автор: Schuiling Floris Название: Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz ISBN: 0815368577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815368571 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967.
Название: Routledge companion to jazz studies ISBN: 1138231169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138231160 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 37514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty commissioned articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquirey. Each chapter reflects on developments within jazz studies over the last twenty-five years.
Автор: Vulliamy Название: Jazz & Blues ISBN: 1138649708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138649705 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling. From their origin in the work songs and spirituals of America's southern slaves, through to their adaptation to the urban adaptation to the urban environment in Chicago and New Orleans, the author details the social and economic background that saw the birth of the blues and jazz, and introduces and appraises their leading exponents. He shows how African rhythms were combined with an American musical tradition to produce a distinctive style which was to revitalise Western music.
Автор: Giddins, Gary Deveaux, Scott Название: Jazz ISBN: 0393068617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393068610 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6334.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.
Автор: Coller Derek, Whyatt Bert Название: Chicago Jazz: The Second Line ISBN: 184382227X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843822271 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5324.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographer and researcher, Bert Whyatt - he looked for a common theme under which to group some of the articles they had written together over the years. He found it in Chicago where their research activities had gravitated towards the style of music created by the young white musicians from that city and its environs - particularly those who rallied around the figurehead of Eddie Condon - as they listened to and learned from the pioneer black stylists, many of them the greatest jazz players to emigrate from New Orleans, including King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny and Baby Dodds and Jimmy Noone. Two trips to the USA, made by the authors in 1979 and 1992, led to meetings and correspondence with some of the musicians in this compilation, and to learning about many others. There are connections between most of these articles, interviews and notes, with an over-lapping of jobs, leaders and clubs. Some of the stories are about pioneers: Elmer Schoebel, Jack Pettis and Frank Snyder, for example, were in the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1923. Trombonist George Brunis, chronicled here, was also a member of that band, though his long career - during which he played with Muggsy Spanier, as did Rod Cless and George Zack, in the Spanier Ragtime Band of 'Great Sixteen' fame - has been more widely documented. Floyd Bean and Tut Soper, here too, were also Spanier alumni. The articles originally appeared variously under a dual by-line, or by either Whyatt or Coller, but always with consultation and discussion prior to publication. Here they become a lively mix of the voices of the authors as well as the musicians and their families, building a story through biography, reviews and discography. The book is illustrated with evocative black and white photographs and images, and there is an Index of names and places to help the reader keep track of the musicians, composers, producers, promoters and writers who created this part of the history of jazz.
Автор: Coller Derek, Whyatt Bert Название: Chicago Jazz: The Second Line ISBN: 1843822261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843822264 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8276.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An illustrated selection from the extensive writings of two intrepid jazz collectors and researchers, Derek Coller and the late Bert Whyatt (1920-2013). The compilation records the lives and music of the unsung `White Jazzmen of Chicago` from the 1920s onwards. A small percentage of all those who played jazz in Chicago, a long and proud tradition
Автор: Taylor Martin, Alexander Joseph Название: Martin Taylor Single Line Soloing For Jazz Guitar ISBN: 1789330882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789330885 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3677.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Master the art of single-note improvised solos with Martin Taylor MBE In Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar Martin Taylor MBE distils more than 40 years of knowledge and wisdom into a comprehensive resource for jazz guitarists. Learn how a virtuoso guitarist thinks and constructs melodic ideas to create rich, engaging solos. This step-by-step method will ensure you make tangible progress on your journey. As a special bonus, see Martin demonstrate the techniques in this book in a series of specially created videos. What You'll Learn: - A time-honoured method for improvisation that puts music before theory - How to take a simple melody and vary it, adding layers of complexity - How to define melodic "hit points" to anchor your solos to the melody - A method to build memorable motifs to engage your audience - How to target specific notes in chords to create different colours and textures - Incorporating chromatics and altered/extended notes into your lines Take your jazz guitar soloing to the next level and play whatever you hear As well as demonstrating dozens of licks for each concept in the book, Martin dedicates a chapter to showing you how a very simple tune can be developed into a full-blown jazz solo using melodic variation, chromatics, hit points and other techniques. We're 100 certain that every reader will have heard this tune at some point. As well as teaching you how to develop the skill of melodic variation, Martin dedicates space in this book to teaching the one skill that sets apart the great jazz guitarists from everyone else: being able to play exactly what you hear in your head.
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