Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance
by Wells, Christi Jay
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music's formation and development even as jazz music came to earn a reputation as a legitimate art form better suited for still, seated listening.
Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political
negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, it advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central
topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to elevate expressive forms such as jazz to elite
status.
Product Details
- Oxford University Press, Brand
- Apr 16, 2021 Pub Date:
- 9780197559284 ISBN-13:
- 019755928X ISBN-10:
- 272 Pages
- English Language
- 9.1 in * 6.1 in * 0.8 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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