Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra
Five Musical Years in Ghana
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2012
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5162-7 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5162-7 (ISBN)
Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound.
In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, Feld conveys a diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests American nationalist and Afrocentric narratives of jazz history. His stories of Accra's jazz cosmopolitanism feature Ghanaba/Guy Warren (1923–2008), the eccentric drummer who befriended the likes of Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Thelonious Monk in the United States in the 1950s, only to return, embittered, to Ghana, where he became the country's leading experimentalist. Others whose stories figure prominently are Nii Noi Nortey, who fuses the legacies of the black avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s with pan-African philosophy in sculptural shrines to Coltrane and musical improvisations inspired by his work; the percussionist Nii Otoo Annan, a traditional master inspired by Coltrane's drummers Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali; and a union of Accra truck and minibus drivers whose squeeze-bulb honk-horn music for drivers' funerals recalls the jazz funerals of New Orleans. Feld describes these artists' cosmopolitan outlook as an "acoustemology," a way of knowing the world through sound.
In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, Feld conveys a diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests American nationalist and Afrocentric narratives of jazz history. His stories of Accra's jazz cosmopolitanism feature Ghanaba/Guy Warren (1923–2008), the eccentric drummer who befriended the likes of Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Thelonious Monk in the United States in the 1950s, only to return, embittered, to Ghana, where he became the country's leading experimentalist. Others whose stories figure prominently are Nii Noi Nortey, who fuses the legacies of the black avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s with pan-African philosophy in sculptural shrines to Coltrane and musical improvisations inspired by his work; the percussionist Nii Otoo Annan, a traditional master inspired by Coltrane's drummers Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali; and a union of Accra truck and minibus drivers whose squeeze-bulb honk-horn music for drivers' funerals recalls the jazz funerals of New Orleans. Feld describes these artists' cosmopolitan outlook as an "acoustemology," a way of knowing the world through sound.
Opus xi
Four-Bar Intro
"The Shape of Jazz to Come" 1
Vamp In, Head
Acoustemology in Accra: On Jazz Cosmopolitanism 11
First Chorus, with Transposition
Guy Warren / Ghanaba: From Afro-Jazz to Handel via Max Roach 51
Second Chorus, Blow Free
Nii Noi Nortey: From Pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane 87
Third Chorus, Back Inside
Nii Otoo Annan: From Toads to Polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali 119
Fourth Chorus, Shout to the Groove
Por Por: From Honk Horns to Jazz Funerals via New Orleans 159
Head Again, Vamp Out
Beyond Diasporic Intimacy 199
"Dedicated to You" 245
Horn Backgrounds, Riffs Underneath 249
Themes, Players 299
| Zusatzinfo | 78 illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-5162-5 / 0822351625 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5162-7 / 9780822351627 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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