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Birds of Fire - Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion (Paperback)
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Birds of Fire - Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring American Music
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"Birds of Fire" brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a
musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of
jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time,
fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock critics.
In the years since, it has come to be seen as a commercially driven
jazz substyle. Fusion never did coalesce into a genre. In "Birds of
Fire," Kevin Fellezs contends that hybridity was its reason for
being. By mixing different musical and cultural traditions, fusion
artists sought to disrupt generic boundaries, cultural hierarchies,
and critical assumptions. Interpreting the work of four distinctive
fusion artists--Tony Williams, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, and
Herbie Hancock--Fellezs highlights the ways that they challenged
convention in the 1960s and 1970s. He also considers the extent to
which a musician can be taken seriously as an artist across
divergent musical traditions. "Birds of Fire" concludes with a look
at the current activities of McLaughlin, Mitchell, and Hancock;
Williams's final recordings; and the legacy of the fusion music
made by these four pioneering artists.
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