Perpetual Frontier

Perpetual Frontier
Author: Joe Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012
Genre: Improvisation (Music)
ISBN: 9780985981006

Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker
Author: Carl Woideck
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472037897

Saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz (often called "bebop"), Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music. His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration. This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book’s initial publication. The volume opens by considering current research on Parker’s biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker’s music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser. The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings—a unique feature to this book.

Frontiers of Jazz

Frontiers of Jazz
Author: Ralph de Toledano
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1966
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 9781455604678

The Story of Jazz

The Story of Jazz
Author: Marshall Winslow Stearns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1970
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195012699

The first and most renowned history of the evolution of the unique American musical phenomenon called jazz, The Story of Jazz follows the course of jazz from the union of the black African musical heritage with European forms and its birth in New Orleans, through the era of swing and bop, to the beginnings of rock in the '50s.

The History of Jazz

The History of Jazz
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195399706

A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself.

Queering Kansas City Jazz

Queering Kansas City Jazz
Author: Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803262914

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city’s history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region’s contested territories, identities, and memories and fails to adequately explain the social and cultural disruptions experienced on the plains. Clifford-Napoleone rectifies this oversight and shows how Kansas City represents the complexity of the jazz scene in America as a microcosm of all the other people who made the culture, clubs, music, and cabarets of the age possible.

Blue Nippon

Blue Nippon
Author: E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2001
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 9780822327219

Aural Education

Aural Education
Author: Monika Andrianopoulou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 100069321X

Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning explores the practice of musical ‘aural training’ from historical, pedagogical, psychological, musicological, and cultural perspectives, and uses these to draw implications for its pedagogy, particularly within the context of higher music education. The multi-perspective approach adopted by the author affords a broader and deeper understanding of this branch of music education, and of how humans relate to music more generally. The book extracts and examines one by one different parameters that appear central to ‘aural training’, proceeding in a gradual and well-organised way, while at the same time constantly highlighting the multiple interconnections and organic unity of the many different operations that take place when we interact with music through any music-related activity. The resulting complex profile of the nature of our relationship with music, combined with an exploration of non-Western cultural perspectives, offer fresh insights on issues relating to musical ‘aural training’. Emerging implications are proposed in the form of broad pedagogical principles, applicable in a variety of different music educational settings. Andrianopoulou propounds a holistic alternative to ‘aural training’, which acknowledges the richness of our relationship to music and is rooted in absorbed aural experience. The book is a key contribution to the existing literature on aural education, designed with researchers and educators in mind.