Uptown Conversation : The New Jazz Studies
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"This collection of erudite essarys aptly captures the spirit of those conversations...This must-have tome ups the ante on jazz banter." -- John Murph, Jazz Times
"It is also a delightful, accessible, and provocative read--a book that how jazz studies can contribute to a host of other fields." -- Choice
"An intellectually stimulating discussion of jazz and its many variations." -- Justin Adewale Collins, Black Issues Book Review
"The focus and depth of these essays prove that this chorus can sing - and not just standards." -- Larry Blumenfeld, Jazziz
" Uptown Conversation gives us that crystallized vision and is destined to become an important source of research and reflection for many years to come." -- Anne Farnsworth, Jazz Notes
" Uptown Conversations... continue[s] this trajectory by moving away from jazz as a static object to be stylistically described, explained, and celebrated through the heroic and larger-than-life individual towards an understanding of jazz as a music in continual dialogue with the historical, social, political, racial, gendered process governing its creation." -- Niko Higgins
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" Uptown Conversation allows us to eavesdrop on one of the most exciting intellectual jam sessions of our times, the dynamic dialogue bubbling out of Robert O'Meally's Jazz Study Group at Columbia. There is a sparky interconnectedness in this collection, stemming no doubt from the fact that the authors are not only grouped together on paper, but regularly gather off the page to exchange ideas. Uptown Conversation invites its readers to participate in a sustained and refreshingly diverse dialogue on such questions as 'How do we look at jazz in a global context?' and 'How should historians narrate the jazz past?' Let me off uptown! This is new jazz studies at its best." -- Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
Uptown Conversation : The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation : The New Jazz Studies,Robert O'Meally,Brent Hayes Edwards,Farah Jasmine Griffin,Columbia University Press,0231123515,American - African American & Black,Genres & Styles - Jazz,History and criticism,Jazz,Music
Uptown Conversation : The New Jazz Studies
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