Saying Something

Jazz Improvisation and Interaction

Ingrid Monson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:24th Feb '97

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In this work, Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life.

  • Winner of Sonneck Society for American Music Irving Lowens Prize 1997

ISBN: 9780226534770

Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 539g

261 pages