Civic Jazz
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Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke's concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music's aesthetic encounters with a rigorous sort of democracy, this book weaves an innovative argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. Jazz music, Clark argues, demonstrates how this aesthetic rhetoric of identification can bind people together through their shared experience in a common project. While such shared experience does not demand agreement-indeed, it often has an air of competition-it does align people in practical effort and purpose. Similarly, Clark shows, Burke considered Americans inhabitants of a persistently rhetorical situation, in which each must choose constantly to identify with some and separate from others. Thought-provoking and path-breaking, Clark's harmonic mashup of music and rhetoric will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.
Title |
Civic Jazz : American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along / Gregory Clark. |
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Publisher |
Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Creation Date |
[2015] |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliography, discography and index. English |
Content |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Setting Up -- 2. A Rhetorical Aesthetic of Jazz -- 3. What Jazz Is -- 4. Where Jazz Comes From -- 5. What Jazz Does -- 6. How Jazz Works -- 7. So What? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index |
Extent |
1 online resource (211 p.) |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2015 |
National Library system number |
997010716560405171 |
MARC RECORDS
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- Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.
- Jazz Social aspects.
- Music and rhetoric.
- Rhetoric Philosophy.
- Rhetoric and music
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- nne Cornet and piano music (Jazz)
- nne Double bass and piano music (Jazz)
- Jazz United States
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- nne Jazz octets
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- Jive (Music)
- nne Saxophone and piano music (Jazz)
- nne Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz)
- nne Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz)
- nne Xylophone and piano music (Jazz)
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