Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199765774 ISBN 13: 9780199765775

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014

Synopsis

Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History, Second Edition, brings to life the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied more than 100 years of jazz history. This unique volume gives voice to a wide range of perspectives which stress different reactions to and uses of jazz, both within and across communities, enabling readers to see that jazz is not just about names, dates, and chords, but rather about issues and ideas, cultural activities, and experiences that have affected people deeply in a great variety of ways. Selections include contributions from well-known figures such as Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis; from renowned writers including Langston Hughes, Norman Mailer, and Ralph Ellison; and from critics and historians ranging from Gunther Schuller and Christopher Small to Sherrie Tucker and George Lipsitz. Filled with insightful writing, Keeping Time aims to increase historical awareness, to provoke critical thinking, and to encourage lively classroom discussion as students relive the intriguing story of jazz.

About this title

Review:

"No other source than Keeping Time gives such a rich choice of material relating to the social, cultural, historical, and economic conditions of jazz."--Peter Winkler, Stony Brook University

"The single most valuable jazz-history resource (print or otherwise) available today."--David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

"Walser offers a much greater range of ideas and topics and a more solid critical approach [than other collections on jazz]."--Geoffrey Block, University of Puget Sound

About the Author:

Edited by Robert Walser, Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199765774
• ISBN 13: 9780199765775
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Walser Professor Robert