Between Beats
The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 September 2021
- ISBN 9780197559284
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 199
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Short description:
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz 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.
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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz 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.
The book represents a massive effort of commitment and research and deserves to find those readers who will appreciate it.
Table of Contents:
A Note About Language
1: Jazz Music and its Choreographies of Listening
2: "Its Bite and Its Feeling": The Quadroon Ball and Jazz's New Orleans Plaçage Complex
3: "Lindy Hopper's Delight": The Chick Webb Orchestra and the Fluid Labor of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
4: "Counter-Bopaganda" and "Torn Riffs": Bebop as Popular Dance Music
5: "A Fine Art in Danger": Marshall Stearns's Jazz Dance Advocacy
6: Dancing Every Note: Community Theater and Kinetic Memory at Jazz 966
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