Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years
of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz
argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that
surrounds it--embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out
from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. Fans and
musicians have made this claim before, but Austerlitz is the first
to provide a scholarly basis for it. He examines jazz in relation
to race and national identity in the U.S. and then broadens his
scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora and in very
different transnational scenes, from the Dominican Republic to
Finland.
Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores jazz in an
extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central chapters is
devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band of
Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of
both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks, while the final chapter
includes an extensive interview with the seminal drummer Milford
Graves, one of Austerlitz's mentors, who holds that music
profoundly influences our biorhythms and indeed shapes our
thoughts.
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