| Physical description |
206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Discography: pages 179-182. |
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Bibliography: pages 183-200. |
| Contents |
2 Labels and Out Jazz 15 -- 3 Jazz Styles and the Precursors of Performing Out 30 -- 4 Founders of Out Jazz and Their Successors 52 -- 5 Economics of Performing Out in New York City 75 -- 6 Perceiving Out Music through Metaphor 93 -- 7 Communicating Out Worldviews through Music 112 -- 8 Implications of Fusing Out Jazz and Culture 145. |
| Summary |
Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians focuses on performers whose out styles, by definition, transcend traditional boundaries of jazz and most Western forms of music; some of these performers are well known, such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor, and others are not, including Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, and Jemeel Moondoc. David Such uses an interdisciplinary approach, ranging from philosophy to ethnomusicology to psychobiology, to examine how both cultural and personal factors have influenced the out musicians and their music and what the music symbolizes to listeners and to the musicians themselves. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz musicians.
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| ISBN |
0877454329 |
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0877454353 (paperback) |
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