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Blutopia - Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton (Paperback)
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Blutopia - Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton (Paperback)
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In "Blutopia "Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three
pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and
Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of
their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each
influenced by a common musical and spiritual heritage and
participated in self-conscious efforts to create a utopian vision
of the future.
A century after Ellington's birth, Lock reassesses his use of
music as a form of black history and compares the different
approaches of Ra, a band leader who focused on the future and
cosmology, and Braxton, a contemporary composer whose work creates
its own elaborate mythology. Arguing that the majority of writing
on black music and musicians has--even if
inadvertently--incorporated racial stereotypes, he explains how
each artist reacted to criticism and sought to break free of
categorical confines. Drawing on social history, musicology,
biography, cultural theory, and, most of all, statements by the
musicians themselves, Lock writes of their influential work.
"Blutopia" will be a welcome contribution to the literature on
twentieth-century African American music and creativity. It will
interest students of jazz, American music, African American
studies, American culture, and cultural studies.
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