Uptown Conversation : : The New Jazz Studies / / ed. by Robert O'Meally, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Brent Hayes Edwards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beavers, Herman,; Edwards, Brent Hayes,; Eschen, Penny M. von,; Gabbard, Krin,; Gaines, Kevin,; Gennari, John,; Griffin, Farah Jasmine,; Harris, William J.,; Harris-Kelley, Diedra,; Iyer, Vijay,; Jackson, Travis A.,; Kelley, Robin D. G.,; Lewis, George,; Lipsitz, George,; Mangin, Timothy R.,; O'Meally, Robert G.,; Szwed, John,; Tucker, Mark,; Veneciano, Jorge Daniel,; Washington, Salim,
• HerausgeberIn: Edwards, Brent Hayes,; Griffin, Farah Jasmine,; O'Meally, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 22 halftones

Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a mu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introductory Notes
• Part 1
• Songs of the Unsung: The Darby Hicks History of Jazz
• "All the Things You Could Be by Now": Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz
• Experimental Music in Black and White: The AACM in New York, 1970-1985
• When Malindy Sings: A Meditation on Black Women's Vocality
• Hipsters, Bluebloods, Rebels, and Hooligans: The Cultural Politics of the Newport Jazz Festival, 1954-1960
• Mainstreaming Monk: The Ellington Album
• The Man
• Part 2
• The Real Ambassadors
• Artistic Othering in Black Diaspora Musics: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics
• Notes on Jazz in Senegal
• Revisiting Romare Bearden's Art of Improvisation
• Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Swing
• Checking Our Balances: Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop
• Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying It with Music
• "How You Sound??": Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz
• The Literary Ellington
• "Always New and Centuries Old": Jazz, Poetry, and Tradition as Creative Adaptation
• A Space We're All Immigrants From: Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook
• Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation
• Beneath the Underground: Exploring New Currents in "Jazz"
• Contributors
• Index