Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz - Towards a Theory of Collaboration (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

Let's try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP "Free Jazz" 20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz, theriskofsuchanenterprise was immediately apparent: I knew that Cecil Taylor had failed to teach such a matter, and that for other, more academic instructors, the topic was still a sort of outlandish adventure. To be clear, we are not talking about tea- ing improvisation here-a di?erent, and also problematic, matter-rather, we wish to create a scholarly discourse about free jazz as a cultural achievement, and follow its genealogy from the American jazz tradition through its various outbranchings, suchastheEuropeanandJapanesejazzconceptionsandint- pretations. We also wish to discuss some of the underlying mechanisms that are extant in free improvisation, things that could be called technical aspects. Such a discourse bears the ?avor of a contradicto in adjecto: Teachingthe unteachable, the very negation of rules, above all those posited by white jazz theorists, and talking about the making of sounds without aiming at so-called factual results and all those intellectual sedimentations: is this not a suicidal topic? My own endeavors as a free jazz pianist have informed and advanced my conviction that this art has never been theorized in a satisfactory way, not even by Ekkehard Jost in his unequaled, phenomenologically precise p- neering book "Free Jazz" 57].

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Computational Music Science
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Guerino Mazzola
Contributors:	Mathias Rissi • Nathan Kennedy
Authors:	Paul B. Cherlin
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	141
Edition:	2009 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-92194-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematics for scientists & engineers Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	3-540-92194-X
Barcode:	9783540921943

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!