Jazz as critique :: Adorno and Black expression revisited /

"A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz as Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Musi...

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1. Verfasser: Okiji, Fumi, 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz as Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests, can provide insight into the controlling, destructive nature of modern society while offering a glimpse of more empathetic and less violent ways of being together in the world. Taking Adorno down a path he did not go, this book calls attention to an alternative sociality made manifest in jazz. In response to writing that tends to portray it as a mirror of American individualism and democracy, Fumi Okiji makes the case for jazz as a model of 'gathering in difference.' Noting that this mode of subjectivity emerged in response to the distinctive history of black America, she reveals that the music cannot but call the integrity of the world into question."--
Bringing critical theory to bear on music, this book argues that the jazz form models progressive social relations through its foregrounding of a "communal self", an African-American subjectivity that demands recognition of black humanity and alterity.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 148 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
ISBN:9781503605862
1503605868

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