Jazz: nature's improvisation 9781927443651, 1927443652

As a boy born into a girl's body in a culture where gender definitions are drawn with sharp lines, Jazz must undert

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Jazz: nature's improvisation
9781927443651, 1927443652

The material presented in this book covers a variety of musical and harmonic situations in which any soloist will be exp

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This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums,

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A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively,

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Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gend

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Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and f

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Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especiall

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A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively,

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Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony i

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