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Gettin' Around - Jazz, Script, Transnationalism (Hardcover)
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Gettin' Around - Jazz, Script, Transnationalism (Hardcover)
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Gettin' Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in
various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity
that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood,
while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of
history. Jurgen E. Grandt deliberately refrains from a narrow,
empirical definition of jazz or of transnationalism and, true to
the jazz aesthetic itself, opts for a broader, more inclusive
scope, even as he listens carefully and closely to jazz's
variegated soundtrack. Such an approach seeks not only to avoid the
museal whiff of a "golden age, time past" but also to broaden the
appeal and the applicability of the overall critical argument. For
Grandt, "international" simply designates currents of people,
ideas, and goods between distinct geopolitical entities or
nation-states, whereas "transnational" refers to liminal dynamics
that transcend preordained borderlines occurring above, below,
beside, or along the outer contours of nation-states. Gettin'
Around offers a long overdue consideration of the ways in which
jazz music can inform critical practice in the field of
transnational (American) studies and grounds these studies in
specifically African American cultural contexts.
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