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Voices Found - Free Jazz and Singing (Paperback)
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Voices Found - Free Jazz and Singing (Paperback)
Series: Transnational Studies in Jazz
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Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice
studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz
voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans
from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of
free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a
theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important
singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have
experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds
these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences
willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often
resist when voices make sounds that audiences understand as
not-human. Experimental poetry and scat were combined and
transformed in free jazz spaces in the 1960s and 1970s by vocalists
like Yoko Ono (in solo work and her work with Ornette Coleman and
John Stevens), Jeanne Lee (in her solo work and her work with
Archie Shepp and Gunter Hampel), Leon Thomas (in his solo work as
well as his work with Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Santana), and Phil
Minton and Maggie Nicols (who devoted much of their energy to
creating unaccompanied free jazz vocal music). By studying free
jazz voice we can learn important lessons about what we expect from
the voice and what happens when those expectations are violated.
This book doesn't only trace histories of free jazz voice, it makes
an attempt to understand why this story hasn't been told before,
with an impressive breadth of scope in terms of the artists
covered, drawing on research from the US, Canada, Wales, Scotland,
France, The Netherlands, and Japan.
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