Free jazz

Free jazz

by Carles, Philippe Comolli, Jean Louis

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In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free jazz/black power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle th…

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  • Full title :Free jazz / black power

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In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free jazz/black power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015
  • Edition:1. English printing

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  • Description:xix, 256 sider

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  • ISBN:9781628460391, 1628460393
  • oclc:ocn958056976

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