Jazz in search of itself [electronic resource] / Larry Kart.

Author
Kart, Larry, 1942- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Description
1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 342 p.))

Details

Subject(s)
Summary note
In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music's key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative-one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined. Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has been unusually immediate, visible, and intense. Kart has reacted to and judged the music in a similarly active, attentive, and personal manner. His involvement and attention to detail are visible in these pieces: essays that analyze the supposed return to tradition that the music of Wynton Marsalis has come to exemplify; searching accounts of the careers of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano; and writing that explores jazz's relationship to American popular song and examines the jazz musician's role as actual and would-be social rebel.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Language note
English
Contents
  • Front matter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE. Notes and Memories of the New Music, 1969
  • PART TWO. A Way of Living
  • PART THREE. The Generators
  • PART FOUR. Moderns and After
  • PART FIVE. Miles Davis
  • PART SIX. Tristano-ites
  • PART SEVEN. The Neo-Con Game
  • PART EIGHT. Singers and Songmakers
  • PART NINE. Alone Together
ISBN
  • 1-281-72159-X
  • 9786611721596
  • 0-300-12819-3
OCLC
  • 1024005740
  • 923591727
Doi
  • 10.12987/9780300128192
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
Other views
Staff view

Supplementary Information

Other versions