This Is Our Music
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This Is Our MusicFree Jazz, the Sixties, and American CultureIain AndersonAn excellent study of the heyday of one of the most problematic bodies of work in the history of jazz music. . . . Essential.--ChoiceThis Is Our Music takes us back to that moment between the fifties and the sixties when a new music called free jazz took root in the coffeehouses and nightclubs of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In this rich and evocative book, Iain Anderson meets the challenge posed by the music and follows its lead into the complex political realignments, shifting racial dynamics, and redefinition of art and entertainment that characterized the subsequent decade.--John Szwed, author of So What: The Life of Miles DavisHistorian Iain Anderson tracks the political and social meanings of jazz as the music changed hands around the world. . . . The crooked line Anderson draws from the maverick [Cecil] Taylor (a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient) to the conservative [Wynton] Marsalis (arbiter of What Is--and Isnt--Jazz) is the real contribution of This Is Our Music.--BookforumAndersons evenhanded, archive-driven book is consistently instructive--a fine guide to the debates that raged around free jazz and to the musics unexpected current place in the American arts canon.--Journal of American HistoryThis Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Colemans 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis, taking as its example the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz. By examining the production, presentation, and reception of expe
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