Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice - Hardcover

Heble, Ajay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415923484 ISBN 13: 9780415923484

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

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Review:

"To the extent that the book leaves us wanting more, and opens up questions which still seem important eough to call out for answers, it is a success. It is certainly required reading for anyone interested both in jazz and contemporary critical theory.."
-William Echard, "Topia
..."this kind of work is badly needed in jazz studies. Heble's book raises crucial issues and...the work should certainly be read by anyone interested in jazz as a cultural practice.."
-William Echard, "Topia
""Landing on the Wrong Note...[introduces] some fascinating new ways of looking at jazz history and articulating a jazz-informed criticism.."
-Hua Hsu, "The Wire
"Heble approaches the idea of 'dissonance', or non-agreement, as a symptom of the modern condition and its discipline-minded political practices. Take that, Wynton Marsalis!."
-Hua Hsu, "The Wire
"Heble gets off on the good foot, and many of "Landing's best moments tread this sticky cultural line of right/wrong.."
-Hua Hsu, "The Wire

Synopsis:

This is a study of jazz from two perspectives: as a cultural and musical form, and as the subject of cultural theory. If jazz is the most sophisticated, even cerebral, of popular musical genres, what can literary and cultural theory contribute to our understanding of it? By intermingling personal anecdote, observation, and conversation with jazz artists, as well as deploying the materials of cultural theory (gender, psychoanalysis, and so forth), Ajay Heble offers an imaginative tool for understanding what it is that jazz does.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415923484
• ISBN 13: 9780415923484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272