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Monk's Music - Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Paperback)
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Monk's Music - Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Paperback)
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Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most
enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk
both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at
the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the
stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and '70s. This
pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and musical
analysis to shed new light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon
itself. Gabriel Solis shows how the work of this stubbornly
nonconformist composer emerged from the jazz world's fringes to
find a central place in its canon. Solis reaches well beyond the
usual life-and-times biography to address larger issues in jazz
scholarship - ethnography and the role of memory in history's
construction. He considers how Monk's stature has grown, from the
narrowly focused wing of the avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s to
the present, where he is claimed as an influence by musicians of
all kinds. He looks at the ways musical lineages are created in the
jazz world and, in the process, addresses the question of how
musicians use performance itself to maintain, interpret, and debate
the history of the musical tradition we call jazz.
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