The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

ISBN	0521663881	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780521663885 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	680
Publisher	Cambridge University Press	Published in	Cambridge
Imprint	Cambridge University Press	Series editor	Cross, Jonathan
Format	Paperback	Series title	Cambridge Companions to Music
Publication date	09 Jan 2003	Previous ISBN	9780521663205
Non-book description	xxii, 403 p. :	Height (mm)	244
Library of Congress	2001052671	Width (mm)	170
DEWEY	781.65	Spine width (mm)	22
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Tertiary education, General, Professional / Scholarly
Pages	428

	List of plates
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	A brief chronology of jazz
	The word jazz by Krin Gabbard	1
1	The identity of jazz by David Horn	9
2	The jazz diaspora by Bruce Johnson	33
3	The jazz audience by Jed Rasula	55
4	Jazz and dance by Robert P. Crease	69
5	Jazz as musical practice by Travis A. Jackson	83
6	Jazz as cultural practice by Bruce Johnson	96
7	Jazz improvisation by Ingrid Monson	114
8	Spontaneity and organisation by Peter J. Martin	133
9	Jazz among the classics, and the case of Duke Ellington by Mervyn Cooke	153
10	1959: the beginning of beyond by Darius Brubeck	177
11	Free jazz and the avant-garde by Jeff Pressing	202
12	Fusions and crossovers by Stuart Nicholson	217
13	Learning jazz, teaching jazz by David Ake	255
14	History, myth and legend: the problem of early jazz by David Sager	270
15	Analysing jazz by Thomas Owens	286
16	Valuing jazz by Robert Walser	301
17	The jazz market by Dave Laing	321
18	Images of jazz by Krin Gabbard	332
	Notes	347
	Works cited	357
	Principal musicians cited	377
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'... most of the writers in this Companion are academics, and it's hard to fault the obvious passion underlying their diverse points of view.' BBC Music Magazine

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