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Author_Ingrid Monson
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community
complex
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culture
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hanna
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identity
improv
innovative
instrumental
instruments
interviews
jaki
jaki byard
mcbee
music
musician
pianist
piano
political
politics
race
rhythm
richard
richard davis
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roland hanna
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226534787
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this work, Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life.
