Free jazz/black power

by Carles, Philippe

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Title Statements

Full title :Free jazz/black power / by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated by Grégory Pierrot.

Summary

"For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and African American culture. 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. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown. The authors reached radical conclusions--free jazz was a revolutionary reaction against white domination, was the musical counterpart to the Black Power movement, and was a music that demanded a similar political commitment. The impact of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African American music. In some cases it changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. Free Jazz / Black Power remains indispensable to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and also realigned that zeitgeist [Publisher description].

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson [Mississippi]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 256 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781628460391, 1628460393, 9781628461572, 1628461578, 9781496807793, 1496807790
oclc:ocn878837795
LC Classification:ML3561.J3
Dewey Decimal:781.65089/96073

Part I : Not a black problem, but a white problem. Jazz today ; Economic ownership of jazz ; Cultural colonization ; The blind task of criticism -- Part II : Notes on a black history of jazz. Three preliminary remarks ; What the blues say ; Black music before jazz ; In the margins of jazz history -- Part III : Contradictions of jazz in a state of freedom. Free fragments ; Music/Politics.

Subjects

African Americans African Americans -- History -- 1964- Criticism, interpretation, etc Free Jazz Free jazz -- Histoire et critique Free jazz -- History and criticism History jazz Jazz -- History and criticism Jazz -- Social aspects MUSIC -- Genres & Styles Musikkritik Noirs américains -- Histoire -- 1964- Since 1964 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)