Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520271043)

What is jazz? What is gained--and what is lost--when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, this collections seeks out those people and pieces missing from the established narratives to explore what they can tell us about the way jazz has been defined and its history has been told.

Author: David Ake
ISBN-10: 0520271041
ISBN-13: 9780520271043
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2012
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2012