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Author: Michael Borshuk (Texas Tech University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.730kg
ISBN: 9781009420198
ISBN 10: 1009420194
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'In this elegant, bold, ambitious, and much-needed intervention in the standard histories of Jazz, Borshuk brings together an all-star cast of leading scholars on a comprehensive set of topics that together enable us all to make a great leap forward in understanding the music's essential relation to American culture. The book begins with several insightful discussions of the specific aesthetic features that define jazz in the context of improvisation, race, literature, and performance, then situates the music historically in terms of Harlem, Modernism, and the watershed upheaval that peaked in 1968; from there, it connects jazz to American vernacular, the personal style of “cool,” and the music's eventual and always fraught relations with institutions of various kinds, its representation in poetry, autobiography, liner notes, and in the visual realm from cinema to TV to photography. An invaluable resource, a stunning achievement.' T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Author of New Orleans: A Writer's City 'Borshuk's collection of 22 uniformly excellent essays is evidence of how vibrant, multifaceted, and productive the field of 'new jazz studies' has been. Each chapter is concise and tightly argued; several exemplify the inspiration and creativity of the music itself. Impressively, the volume holds together thematically while addressing a wide variety of topics … Highly recommended.' E. T. Atkins, CHOICE
'In this elegant, bold, ambitious, and much-needed intervention in the standard histories of Jazz, Borshuk brings together an all-star cast of leading scholars on a comprehensive set of topics that together enable us all to make a great leap forward in understanding the music's essential relation to American culture. The book begins with several insightful discussions of the specific aesthetic features that define jazz in the context of improvisation, race, literature, and performance, then situates the music historically in terms of Harlem, Modernism, and the watershed upheaval that peaked in 1968; from there, it connects jazz to American vernacular, the personal style of “cool,” and the music's eventual and always fraught relations with institutions of various kinds, its representation in poetry, autobiography, liner notes, and in the visual realm from cinema to TV to photography. An invaluable resource, a stunning achievement.' T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Author of New Orleans: A Writer's City
Author Information
Michael Borshuk is the author of Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (2006), which won the Texas Tech University President's Book Award for Outstanding Faculty Publication. He has written widely on African American literature, American modernism, and music. For ten years, he wrote on jazz for Coda magazine.
