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Jazz As Critique : Adorno and Black Expression Revisited.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503605862
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jazz As CritiqueLOC classification:
  • ML3508 .O355 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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