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Author Carles, Philippe, author

Title Free jazz/Black power / by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated by Grégory Pierrot
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 256 pages)
Series American made music series
American made music series.
Contents Not a black problem, but a white problem. Jazz today ; Economic ownership of jazz ; Cultural colonization ; The blind task of criticism -- Notes on a black history of jazz. Three preliminary remarks ; What the blues say ; Black music before jazz ; In the margins of jazz history -- Contradictions of jazz in a state of freedom. Free fragments ; Music/Politics
Summary In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote 'Free Jazz/Black Power', a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography and index
Notes Translated from the French
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2015)
Subject Jazz -- History and criticism
Free jazz -- History and criticism
African Americans -- History -- 1964-
Jazz -- Social aspects
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
African Americans
Free jazz
Jazz
Jazz -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Comolli, Jean-Louis, author
Pierrot, Grégory, translator.
LC no. 2014024097
ISBN 9781626740846
1626740844
9781628461572
1628461578
9781626743403
1626743401
1628460393
9781628460391
1496807790
9781496807793
Other Titles Free jazz/Black power. English