Playing the Changes

Jazz at an African University and on the Road

Darius Brubeck, Catherine Brubeck (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08826-1 (ISBN)

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Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed and organized bands, concerts, and tours around the world.

The Brubecks and the musicians faced innumerable obstacles, from the intensification of apartheid and a lack of resources to the hardscrabble lives that forced even the most talented artists to the margins. Building a program grounded in multi-culturalism, Catherine and Darius encouraged black and white musicians to explore and expand the landscape of South African jazz together Their story details the sometimes wily, sometimes hilarious problem-solving necessary to move the institution forward while offering insightful portraits of South African jazz players at work, on stage, and providing a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath.

Frank and richly detailed, Playing the Changes provides insiders’ accounts of how jazz intertwined with struggle and both expressed and resisted the bitter unfairness of apartheid-era South Africa.

Darius Brubeck is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, broadcaster, educator, and former director of the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the son of legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. Catherine Brubeck, a South African, has worked in events organization, publishing, and artist management (specializing in jazz) in America, South Africa, and the UK. She was the Project Manager at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music, initiating and organizing extra-curricular projects and events throughout Darius’s term as director.

Foreword by Christopher Ballantine

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Prelude

The Mission
The Scene
Improvising Education
Durban to Detroit
The Jazzanian Effect
The Jazz Centre and Drinks at Five
Some Remarkable People
Off Campus and on the Road
Continuum

Coda

Appendix 1: Out-Takes

Appendix 2: Documents

Discography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2024
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	739 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-252-08826-3 / 0252088263
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08826-1 / 9780252088261
Zustand	Neuware