As Serious As Your Life (eBook)

Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977

Val Wilmer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-458-8 (ISBN)

Rezensionen

A very powerful and proud black book ... it sings the praise-song of the procreators of the new music and their direct descendants

An exceptionally illuminating book on jazz now - and on music to come. Indeed, it's one of the relatively few indispensable books about America's classical music

This book saved me from giving up. Even though the jazz musicians Wilmer wrote about were mostly male, their approach to music making, their passion and their activism resonated with me and showed me a way to move forward musically

A masterpiece of jazz history ... it charts the development of the new black music, delving deep into the lives, minds and politics of the people behind it

A fascinating document, full of the energy of political struggle

One of the most important and exciting books ever written about jazz. It's essential

A classic ... jam-packed with gems

Fascinating snapshot

The best of those books that found evidence of a black revolution or resurgence in the musical achievements of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others

One of the foremost chroniclers of African-American musical culture

A social history of the free jazz movement from its beginnings in the late 1950s ... as serious, and necessary, as ever

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2018
• Vorwort: Richard Williams
• Zusatzinfo: Sixteen-page plate section featuring original photography from Val Wilmer's archives
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Schlagworte: aacm • Albert Ayler • Alice Coltrane • Amina Myers • Andrew Cyrille • Anthony Braxton • Archie Shepp • Arthur Blythe • Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians • Bill Dixon • black avant-garde • black identity • Black Music • black nationalist • Black Power • Blues • cecil taylor • Charles Davis • Charlie Haden • Dewey Redman • Don Cherry • Edward Blackwell • Eric Dolphy • Free Jazz • isolation reading • John Coltrane • Leo Smith • Lester Bowie • Lynda Sharrock • marion brown • McCoy Tyner • Milford Graves • music writing • Ornette Coleman • Pharoah Sanders • quarantine reads • Rashied Ali • richard williams • Sam Rivers • Sirone • Sonny Sharrock • Steve McCall • Sunny Murray • Sun Ra • the new black music • the new thing • writing about jazz
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-458-3 / 1782834583
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-458-8 / 9781782834588