This book take us back to that moment between the fifties ans sixties when a new music called free jazz took root in the coffeehouses and nightclubs of New York city, Chicago and Los Angeles; explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis, taki…
By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, S…
"By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, …
