Jazz As Critique : Adorno and Black Expression Revisited.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, Individualism, and the Black Modern -- 2 Double Consciousness and the Critical Potential of Black Expression -- 3 Black Dwelling, a Refuge for the Homeless -- 4 Storytelling, Sound, and Silence -- Postscript: Some Thoughts on the Inadequacy and Indispensability of Jazz Records -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Bringing critical theory to bear on music, this book argues that the jazz form models progressive social relations through its foregrounding of a "communal self," an African-American subjectivity that demands recognition of black humanity and alterity.
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Adorno, Theodor W.,-1903-1969.-Ästhetik (1958/59).-English. Jazz-History and criticism. Jazz-Philosophy and aesthetics. African American musicians. African American aesthetics. Aesthetics, Black.