Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its CriticsUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010 M09 15 - 494 páginas In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled—often both—but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back on itself to chronicle the many writers who have helped define how we listen to and how we understand jazz. That is, of course, until now. In Blowin’ Hot and Cool, John Gennari provides a definitive history of jazz criticism from the 1920s to the present. The music itself is prominent in his account, as are the musicians—from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and beyond. But the work takes its shape from fascinating stories of the tradition’s key critics—Leonard Feather, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Dan Morgenstern, Gary Giddins, and Stanley Crouch, among many others. Gennari is the first to show the many ways these critics have mediated the relationship between the musicians and the audience—not merely as writers, but in many cases as producers, broadcasters, concert organizers, and public intellectuals as well. For Gennari, the jazz tradition is not so much a collection of recordings and performances as it is a rancorous debate—the dissonant noise clamoring in response to the sounds of jazz. Against the backdrop of racial strife, class and gender issues, war, and protest that has defined the past seventy-five years in America, Blowin’ Hot and Cool brings to the fore jazz’s most vital critics and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping jazz’s significance in American culture and life. |
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... essays: part of chapter 2 as '"A Weapon of Integration': Frank Marshall Davis and the Politics of Jazz," Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1995/Spring 1996, 15—32', part of chapter 4 as "Miles Davis and the Jazz Critics," in Miles Davis and ...
... essays: part of chapter 2 as '"A Weapon of Integration': Frank Marshall Davis and the Politics of Jazz," Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1995/Spring 1996, 15—32', part of chapter 4 as "Miles Davis and the Jazz Critics," in Miles Davis and ...
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... essay arguing that Armstrong, Ellington, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Red Rodney, and Doc Cheatham improved with age, that it's their late-career performances—usually trashed by greenhorn critics itching ...
... essay arguing that Armstrong, Ellington, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Red Rodney, and Doc Cheatham improved with age, that it's their late-career performances—usually trashed by greenhorn critics itching ...
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... essay titled "Negroes Don't Know Anything about Jazz." Taylor lamented that the jazz audience was overwhelmingly white and argued that more blacks would appreciate the music if only more black writers would write about it. "Will Negro ...
... essay titled "Negroes Don't Know Anything about Jazz." Taylor lamented that the jazz audience was overwhelmingly white and argued that more blacks would appreciate the music if only more black writers would write about it. "Will Negro ...
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... essay was published in the Nation as a response to George Schuylers satirical essay “The Negro Art Hokum,” which rejected the idea of a separate black aesthetic. But Hughes's essay took aim at a deeper vein of black cultural ...
... essay was published in the Nation as a response to George Schuylers satirical essay “The Negro Art Hokum,” which rejected the idea of a separate black aesthetic. But Hughes's essay took aim at a deeper vein of black cultural ...
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... essay, sounded an alarm “that black nationalist leaders and the American Nazi Party had a relationship of mutual respect” and “that both had expressed similarly antagonistic views on the Jews,” he was expressing a deeply personal sense ...
... essay, sounded an alarm “that black nationalist leaders and the American Nazi Party had a relationship of mutual respect” and “that both had expressed similarly antagonistic views on the Jews,” he was expressing a deeply personal sense ...
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Hearing the Noisy Lostness Telling the Story of Jazz | 117 |
Writers Writers and Sensitive Cats Mapping the New Jazz Criticism | 165 |
Swinging in a HighClass Groove Mainstreaming Jazz in Lenox and Newport | 207 |
The Shock of the New Black Freedom the Counterculture and 1960s Jazz Criticism | 251 |
Raceing the Bird Ross Russells Obsessive Pursuit of Charlie Parker | 299 |
Tangled Up in Blues The New Jazz Renaissance and Its Discontents | 339 |
Change of the Century
| 373 |
Notes
| 387 |
Index
| 445 |
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Página 162 - The Blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.
Página 30 - Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing blues penetrate the closed ears of the colored near-intellectuals until they listen and perhaps understand. Let Paul Robeson singing Water Boy...
Página 272 - Negro music alone, because it drew its strengths and beauties out of the depth of the black man's soul, and because to a large extent its traditions could be carried on by the lowest classes of Negroes, has been able to survive the constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class. Blues and jazz have been the only consistent exhibitors of "Negritude...
Página 202 - I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
Página 438 - Americans at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Página 159 - Here it is more meaningful to speak, not of courses of study, of grades and degrees, but of apprenticeship, ordeals, initiation ceremonies, of rebirth. For after the jazzman has learned the fundamentals of his instrument and the traditional techniques of jazz — the intonations, the mute work, manipulation of timbre, the body of traditional styles — he must then "find himself," must be reborn, must find, as it were, his soul.
Página 284 - The Negro musician is a reflection of the Negro people as a social and cultural phenomenon. His purpose ought to be to liberate America aesthetically and socially from its inhumanity. The inhumanity of the white American to the black American as well as the inhumanity of the white American to the white American is not basic to America and can be exorcised, gotten out. I think the Negro people through the force of their struggles are the only hope of saving America, the political or the cultural America.
Página 161 - And then Ellington and the great orchestra came to town; came with their uniforms, their sophistication, their skills; their golden horns, their flights of controlled and disciplined fantasy; came with their art, their special sound; came with Ivy Anderson and Ethel Waters singing and dazzling the eye with their high-brown beauty and with the richness and bright feminine flair of their costumes, their promising manners. They were news from the great wide world, an example and a goal...
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