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The author argues that jazz embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the US and broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora.
Explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. The author argues that jazz embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the US and broadens his …
"The separate but interrelated essays in this book look at jazz through three large lenses as follows: (1) as an art that is intimately tied to national identity in the United States; (2) as a type of music that is inextricable from its African-influenced base; and (3) as a majo…
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds it--embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African Ameri…