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Going for Jazz (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Going for Jazz (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Jazz is one of the most influential American art forms of our
times. It shapes our ideas about musical virtuosity, human action
and new forms of social expression. In "Going for Jazz, " Nicholas
Gebhardt shows how the study of jazz can offer profound insights
into American historical consciousness. Focusing on the lives of
three major saxophonists--Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, and
Ornette Coleman--Gebhardt demonstrates how changing forms of state
power and ideology framed and directed their work.
Weaving together a range of seemingly disparate topics, from
Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis to the invention of
bebop, from Jean Baudrillard's "Seduction" to the Cold War atomic
regime, Gebhardt addresses the meaning and value of jazz in the
political economy of American society. In "Going for Jazz, " jazz
musicians assume dynamic and dramatic social positions that demand
a more conspicuous place for music in our understanding of the
social world.
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