Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

Voorkant
Psychology Press, 2000 - 258 pagina's

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

 

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Introduction
1
From Symbolic to Semiotic
29
Chicagos Urban Bushmen and the Problem of Representation
63
Jazz Autobiography and the Politics of Literary Improvisation
89
Jazz Voice and Resistance
117
Women in Jazz with Gillian Siddall
42
Jazz andas Popular Culture
67
The Ethicopolitical Authority of Jazz
99
Alternative Public Spheres
129
Works Cited
138
Sound and Video Recordings Consulted
250
Index
253
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Over de auteur (2000)

Ajay Heble is Associate Professor of English at the University of Guelph in Canada. The author of a book on Alice Munro and the editor of a volume of Canadian criticism, he is also the Artistic Director of the Guelph Jazz Festival. He wears a beret.

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