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The Performance of Authenticity - The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography (Hardcover)
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The Performance of Authenticity - The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography (Hardcover)
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In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the
Self in Autobiography Teofilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the
autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney
Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts
construct New Orleans jazz as an authentic musical expression
grounded in their experiences and culture. The author argues the
autobiographies reproduce and reinterpret modernist conceptions of
authenticity to assert and affirm authority over the public
representations and discussions of jazz. Through the
autobiographers' use of ideas about authenticity, they establish
the value of their narratives but at the same time reinforce some
of the power dynamics they set out to criticize. Their narratives
also reveal the complex ethics that emerged during the first
decades of the music and problematize modernist values such as
individualism, the dichotomy of work and life, as well as the self
and the social. The book adopts Foucauldian and
social-constructivist perspectives, complementing analysis of the
autobiographies by drawing from literary theory, psychology,
sociology, and jazz scholarship.
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