Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction [NOOK Book]

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Overview

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of
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Overview

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life.

Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.



Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226534794
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 2/15/2009
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 492,756
  • Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
  • File size: 4 MB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Ingrid Monson is assistant professor of music at Washington University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Talking to Musicians 11
2 Grooving and Feeling 26
3 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation 73
4 Intermusicality 97
5 Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis 133
6 Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism 192
Coda 216
Notes 219
Interviews 231
Recordings 233
Bibliography 235
Index 247
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