Jazzing

New York City's Unseen Scene

Thomas H. Greenland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04011-5 (ISBN)

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How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active performers in their own right who witness and thus collaborate in a happening made one-of-a-kind by improvisation, mood, and moment. Jazzing shines a spotlight on the constituency of proprietors, booking agents, photographers, critics, publicists, painters, amateur musicians, fans, friends, and tourists that makes up New York City's contemporary jazz scene. Drawn from deep ethnographic research, interviews, and long term participant observation, Jazzing charts the ways New York's distinctive physical and social-cultural environment affects and is affected by jazz. Throughout, Greenland offers a passionate argument in favor of a radically inclusive conception of music-making, one in which individuals collectively improvise across social contexts to co-create community and musical meaning. An odyssey through the clubs and other performance spaces on and off the beaten track, Jazzing is an insider's view of a vibrant urban art world.

Thomas H. Greenland is a New York City–based guitarist, pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, journalist, photographer, and educator.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: The Unseen Scene1. Listening to Jazz2. Developing “Big Ears”: Jazz Fans3. Making the Scene: Fan Communities4. Providing a Place and Time: Jazz Presenters5. Jazz Jobbing: Music Professionals6 .Hear and Now: Collective Improvisation and Spiritual SynergyEpilogue: Making the ChangesAppendix: InterviewsNotesReferencesDiscographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	32 black and white photographs, 2 line drawings
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-252-04011-2 / 0252040112
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04011-5 / 9780252040115
Zustand	Neuware