Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries
David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark
Abstract
Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians who (and concepts, places, and practices that), though deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely, if ever, appeared in conventional jazz narratives. The book's goal is neither to map out a supposedly all-inclusive history of jazz, nor necessarily to salvage the reputations of typically dismissed styles or figures, but rather to explore what these missing people and pieces tell us about the ways in which jazz has been defined and its history told. That is, in focusing their inquiries beyond the veritable hall of ja ... More
Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians who (and concepts, places, and practices that), though deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely, if ever, appeared in conventional jazz narratives. The book's goal is neither to map out a supposedly all-inclusive history of jazz, nor necessarily to salvage the reputations of typically dismissed styles or figures, but rather to explore what these missing people and pieces tell us about the ways in which jazz has been defined and its history told. That is, in focusing their inquiries beyond the veritable hall of jazz greatness, the authors seek to determine what we can learn about jazz as a whole by interrogating its traditionally understood musical and cultural margins (though not necessarily the economic margins: many of the performers and performances discussed in these essays have been enjoyed by millions of listeners), and to find out what is gained—and what is lost—when particular communities erect their own fences around jazz.
Keywords:
jazz,
music,
genre,
culture,
musicology,
jazz studies,
American music,
canon,
race,
ethnicity,
gender,
class,
cultural hierarchy,
America's classical music,
ethnomusicology,
popular music,
music education,
humor,
Asian American music,
African American music,
jazz vocal,
jazz choir,
black music,
Latin jazz,
Atlantic Records
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520271036 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520271036.001.0001 |
