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Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra - Five Musical Years in Ghana (Hardcover, New)
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Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra - Five Musical Years in Ghana (Hardcover, New)
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In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology
of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players
in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz
greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local
instruments and worldviews. Combining memoir, biography,
ethnography, and history, Feld conveys a diasporic intimacy and
dialogue that contests American nationalist and Afrocentric
narratives of jazz history. His stories of Accra's jazz
cosmopolitanism feature Ghanaba/Guy Warren (1923-2008), the
eccentric drummer who befriended the likes of Charlie Parker, Max
Roach, and Thelonious Monk in the United States in the 1950s, only
to return, embittered, to Ghana, where he became the country's
leading experimentalist. Others whose stories figure prominently
are Nii Noi Nortey, who fuses the legacies of the black
avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s with pan-African philosophy in
sculptural shrines to Coltrane and musical improvisations inspired
by his work; the percussionist Nii Otoo Annan, a traditional master
inspired by Coltrane's drummers Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali; and a
union of Accra truck and minibus drivers whose squeeze-bulb
honk-horn music for drivers' funerals recalls the jazz funerals of
New Orleans. Feld describes these artists' cosmopolitan outlook as
an "acoustemology," a way of knowing the world through sound.
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