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Author Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia)

Title Saying something : jazz improvisation and interaction / Ingrid Monson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Talking to Musicians; 2 Grooving and Feeling; 3 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation; 4 Intermusicality; 5 Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis; 6 Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism; Coda; Notes; Interviews; Recordings; Bibliography; Index
Summary This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Jazz -- Criticism and interpretation
Improvisation (Music)
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Improvisation (Music)
Jazz
Improvisation
Jazz
Jazz -- Histoire et critique.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96023224
ISBN 9780226534794
0226534790
128207007X
9781282070073
9786612070075
6612070072