In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Other pieces revise standard accounts of well-known jazz figures, such as Duke Ellington, and lesser-known musicians, including Jeanne Lee; delve into how money, class, space, and economics affect the performance of experimental music; and take up the question of how digital technology influences improvisation. People Get Ready offers a vision for the future of jazz based on an appreciation of the complexity of its past and the abundance of innovation in the present. Contributors. Tamar Barzel, John Brackett, Douglas Ewart, Ajay Heble, Vijay Iyer, Thomas King, Tracy McMullen, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Eric Porter, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Jaribu Shahid, Julie Dawn Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Stanbridge, John Szwed, Greg Tate, Scott Thomson, Rob Wallace, Ellen Waterman, Corey Wilkes
OWEN. JONES. Britain's social order is irretrievably broken. Workers have suffered the longest squeeze in wages since the Napoleonic Wars; the most severe of any industrialised nation other than Greece.
128 When it became obvious that the older jubilee sound was fading , the Swans recruited the powerful lead singer Solomon Womack . The group rehearsed incessantly and scored a few hits with King , mostly built around Womack's ...
This volume - based on a two-yearcollaboration with the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia - offers a series of illustrations and styles of lived theology, in conversation with other major approaches to the religious ...
In Traveling Soul, Todd Mayfield tells his famously private father's story in riveting detail.
-Daniel H. Wilson , author of Robopocalypse " I was blown away by this book . ... Ernie Cline has pulled the raddest of all magic tricks : He's managed to write a novel that's at once serious and playful , that is as fun to read as it ...
In 1965, Andrew Grant Jackson combines fascinating and often surprising personal stories with a panoramic historical narrative.
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In Higher Ground, Werner illuminates the lives of three unparalleled American artists, reminding us why their music mattered then and still resonates with us today.
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