Free jazz/Black power
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 …
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- Full title :Free jazz/Black power / by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated by Grégory Pierrot.
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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. 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.
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- Publication Date:2015
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- Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication:Jackson
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 256 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781626740846, 1626740844, 9781628461572, 1628461578, 9781626743403, 1626743401, 1628460393, 9781628460391, 1496807790, 9781496807793
- oclc:ocn881518444
- LC Classification:ML3561.J3
- Dewey Decimal:781.65089/96073
Table of Contents
Not a black problem, but a white problem. Jazz today ; Economic ownership of jazz ; Cultural colonization ; The blind task of criticism -- Notes on a black history of jazz. Three preliminary remarks ; What the blues say ; Black music before jazz ; In the margins of jazz history -- Contradictions of jazz in a state of freedom. Free fragments ; Music/Politics.
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