This Is Our Music : : Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture / / Iain Anderson.

This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist inn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2007
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 23 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Resurgence of Jazz in the 1950s
  • 2. Free Improvisation Challenges the Jazz Canon
  • 3. Free Jazz and Black Nationalism
  • 4. The Musicians and Their Audience
  • 5. Jazz Outside the Marketplace
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments