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Civic Jazz (Paperback)
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Civic Jazz (Paperback)
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Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In
much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in
the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly
disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that
Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke's
concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music's aesthetic
encounters with a rigorous sort of democracy, this book weaves an
innovative argument about how individuals can preserve and improve
civic life in a democratic culture. Jazz music, Clark argues,
demonstrates how this aesthetic rhetoric of identification can bind
people together through their shared experience in a common
project. While such shared experience does not demand
agreement-indeed, it often has an air of competition-it does align
people in practical effort and purpose. Similarly, Clark shows,
Burke considered Americans inhabitants of a persistently rhetorical
situation, in which each must choose constantly to identify with
some and separate from others. Thought-provoking and path-breaking,
Clark's harmonic mashup of music and rhetoric will appeal to
scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science,
performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.
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