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Better Git It in Your Soul - An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (Hardcover)
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Better Git It in Your Soul - An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (Hardcover)
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Charles Mingus is one of the most important-and most
mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically
trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as
a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid
autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has done much to shape the
image of Mingus as something of a wild man: idiosyncratic musical
genius with a penchant for skirt-chasing and violent outbursts.
But, as the autobiography reveals, he was also a hopeless romantic.
After exploring the most important events in Mingus's life, Krin
Gabbard takes a careful look at Mingus as a writer as well as a
composer and musician. He digs into how and why Mingus chose to do
so much self-analysis, how he worked to craft his racial identity
in a world that saw him simply as "black," and how his mental and
physical health problems shaped his career. Gabbard sets aside the
myth-making and convincingly argues that Charles Mingus created a
unique language of emotions-and not just in music. Capturing many
essential moments in jazz history anew, Better Git It in Your Soul
will fascinate anyone who cares about jazz, African American
history, and the artist's life.
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