{"product_id":"ubuntu-fusion-music","title":"Ubuntu Fusion Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Ubuntu Fusion Music received a Certificate of Merit in the category Best History in Recorded Jazz at the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn exploring heterogeneous intersections between jazz, rock, ethnic, and world music, this book answers the question as to whether fusion represents a style on its own or whether it is the base for combining diverse music sources.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSocial, political, and geographical divides reflected in post-communist, capitalist, and third worlds, and in democratic and dictatorial regimes have compelled substantial changes in musicians’ thinking. The book examines ethnic inspirations in American jazz, Slovak-American jazz, young French bands with diverse fusion identities, Hungarian and Czech progressive rock, Czech world music and brass bands, American psychedelic rock, Italian rock, and in a Romani-Slovak-Norwegian music project. New compositional and improvisational trends, and hybrid fusions in contemporary music embrace the African philosophy of \u003ci\u003eubuntu\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich denotes feelings of mutual belonging free of prejudices against racial origins, social inequalities, or other cultural characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49720069030232,"sku":"9783631910917","price":46.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631910917.jpg?v=1777803345","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ubuntu-fusion-music","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}