Civic Jazz

[Lazaro Vega]

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo19394163.html

Civic Jazz

AMERICAN MUSIC AND KENNETH BURKE ON THE ART OF GETTING ALONG

Anyone check this out?

Edited February 23, 2015 by Lazaro Vega

[Chuck Nessa]

Looks like it might be worth avoiding.

[JSngry]

[MomsMobley]

Looks like it might be worth avoiding.

you think?

Loren Schoenberg, Artistic Director, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

“This book could not have come along at a better time. Clark's incisive exploration of the concurrent streams of American ingenuity and the essence of the American experiment document some of the most vital contributions made to American culture in the course of the last century. What I find so thrilling about his conclusions is that they integrate the improvisatory nature of jazz itself with the American experiment, informed by such notables as Kenneth Burke and Albert Murray, and contemporary leading lights Marcus Roberts and Wynton Marsalis. This is a book that should be on every bookshelf and closely read by anyone with a serious stake in how we got where we are and where we might be lucky enough to be going.”

i know Loren has to sing for his supper-- and I've enjoyed some of his writing elsewhere-- but that's... rather hard to take, on numerous levels.

the mandolin part alone from Arnold Schoenberg "Serenade" greater than all those schlubs put together, Albert Murray's few lucid insights included.

Edited February 24, 2015 by MomsMobley