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Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene Volume 16

Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene Volume 16

Jackson, Travis A.

Paperback

Series: Music of the African Diaspora, Book 16

JazzMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 0520270452
ISBN13: 9780520270459
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 12 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form intimately influenced by and influential upon American concepts of race, place, and spirituality.

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