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This Uncontainable Feeling of Freedom
Irène Schweizer: jazz pianist, activist, icon. A self-taught musician from the Swiss village of Schaffhausen, at the age of 19 she won first prize at the Zurich amateur jazz festival. (The festival had not anticipated that a woman might win: first prize was a men's shirt.) The creative journey of this young woman from the north of Switzerland led her inexorably to experimental music: from the London jazz club Ronnie Scott's and the Zurich club Africana to avant-garde stages in Wuppertal, Berlin, Willisau, Chicago, and New York; from concerts with Don Cherry, Louis Moholo and George Lewis to solo appearances as a celebrated artist in the Swiss temples of high culture: the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre and the Zurich Tonhalle. She fought constantly for artistic freedom and autonomy. Her committed action against apartheid and for women's rights resulted in her surveillance by Swiss intelligence agencies, revealed in the "secret files scan- dal" of 1989. Undaunted, Schweizer persisted in her activism for left politics in Switzerland. Christian Broecking has researched and written the biography of one of the most exceptional musicians of the post-war period in Europe.
A Power Stronger Than Itself
Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.
Northern Sun, Southern Moon
Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisational and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant. At the same time European jazz continued to follow the American model. When the creators of so-called free jazz--Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, and others--liberated American jazz from its Western ties, European musicians found their own distinctive voices and created a vital, innovative, and independent jazz culture. Northern Sun, Southern Moon examines this pan-Eurasian musical revolution. Author and musician Mike Heffley charts its development in ...
Art, Intellect and Politics
The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the traditional focus on either highbrow modernism on the one hand or lowbrow popular music on the other, its novel view centers on the wealth of previously overlooked products and practices that bridged the space between these cultural extremes. While seminal attempts to recover middlebrow culture came from literary critics and historians, middlebrow studies is now a burgeoning field within musicology. As the first essay collection on this topic, this handbook has two aims: first, it seeks to explore the middlebrow as a historical phenomeno...
Elevate Yourself
This book is dedicated to women. It is divided into two sections. The WHY is the first, and the HOW is the second. I want to explain where I came from, who I've become, and how I got there. I am not omniscient, but some say I am close... This book is dedicated to you, whoever you are: Because the ability to love yourself is your true power, these are the essential femininity tools for elevating yourself, strengthening your soul, and connecting with your natural beauty. I want to guide you on how to be the best version of yourself—for you!
Classic Car Restoration Tips
Perhaps you feel an entire car restoration seems too daunting a task to even think about. This book, however, will teach you how to go about this project in easy steps. While restoring a car is not a simple project, it is not difficult if you take it in steps. This is the perfect book for you to learn which steps to take when restoring a classic car as well as practical tips on the restoration process. If you have always loved cars and dreamed of one day bringing an old car back to life by restoration, "Vintage Cars – Restoration Tips From A Classic Car Junkie," can teach you the right way to go about living that dream by getting you started and keeping you motivated in a car renovation pr...
Jazz and American Culture
This book explores jazz as a cultural lodestone and source of critical inquiry for over a century.
Re-membering the Black Atlantic
The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to 're-member' the Black Atlantic. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of acce...
Sound Changes
Extends the field of improvisation studies in a more global, transcultural direction
