Better Git It in Your Soul (eBook)

An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus

Krin Gabbard (Autor)

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2016
336 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96374-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Charles Mingus is one of the most importantand most mythologizedcomposers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has done much to shape the image of Mingus as something of a wild man: idiosyncratic musical genius with a penchant for skirt-chasing and violent outbursts. But, as the autobiography reveals, he was also a hopeless romantic. After exploring the most important events in Mingus's life, Krin Gabbard takes a careful look at Mingus as a writer as well as a composer and musician. He digs into how and why Mingus chose to do so much self-analysis, how he worked to craft his racial identity in a world that saw him simply as ';black,' and how his mental and physical health problems shaped his career. Gabbard sets aside the myth-making and convincingly argues that Charles Mingus created a unique language of emotionsand not just in music. Capturing many essential moments in jazz history anew,Better Git It in Your Soulwill fascinate anyone who cares about jazz, African American history, and the artist's life.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION.
Charles Mingus Changed My Life

PART I. A Circus in a Bathtub

PART II. Autobiography, Autofiction, and Some Poetry

PART III. Third Stream Music and the Rest of Jazz History

PART IV. On and Off the Bandstand with Richmond, Dolphy, and Knepper

EPILOGUE. Mingus in the Movies

Acknowledgments
Discography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Schlagworte: 20th century musicians • African American • African American History • African American Musicians • Bandleader • Biography • biracial musicians • Black Musicians • charles mingus jazz • classically trained jazz musician • history of jazz • Improvisation • improvised jazz • Jazz • jazz composers • jazz history • jazz musicians • jazz performers • language for emotions • midwest jazz • musical genius • Music History • race and identity in jazz scene
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96374-1 / 0520963741
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96374-0 / 9780520963740