Antagonistic Cooperation : : Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture / / Robert O'Meally.
Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as “antagonistic cooperation.” Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O’Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. This Music Demanded Action: Ellison, Armstrong, and the Imperatives of Jazz
- 2. We Are All a Collage: Armstrong’s Operatic Blues, Bearden’s Black Odyssey, and Morrison’s Jazz
- 3. The “Open Corner” of Black Community and Creativity: From Romare Bearden to Duke Ellington and Toni Morrison
- 4. Hare and Bear: The Racial Politics of Satchmo’s Smile
- 5. The White Trombone and the Unruly Black Cosmopolitan Trumpet, or How Paris Blues Came to Be Unfinished
- Coda
- Notes
- Index