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In this work, 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Saying Something
• Subtitle: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
• Author: Ingrid Monson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 266
• EAN: 9780226534770
• ID: 04547568
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 540 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. February 1997

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