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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197780084
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 illustrations 700
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Short description:
Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz tells the story of the twentieth-century abstract music now referred to as free jazz, or jazz's new thing as it was known in the early 1960s. By making connections between how and why artists created this work, its cultural significances, and its complicated reception in the music press of the 1960s, author Kwami Coleman provides readers with ways to listen to and understand this innovative and disruptive music.
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By 1960, musicians, critics, record buyers, and club patrons in New York City agreed that a "new thing" in jazz had arrived. That new thing was what we in the twenty-first century call free jazz, and it represented a significant change within and, for some, a dramatic departure from what was commonly understood as modern jazz. The arresting, abstract sound of the new music pioneered by ensembles led by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and other experimentalist improvising musicians became the focal point of an ongoing controversy in the 1960s that called into question their musicianship, legitimacy, and sanity. Flourishing in an age of anti-establishment protest and radical politics--what writer Amiri Baraka characterized as the inevitable expression of Black American culture--and explained by musicians as the product of newfound consciousness, the new thing was, by 1966, almost unanimously dismissed by the music press as the discordant sound of black anger.
Author Kwami Coleman integrates musical analyses of key recordings, musician interviews, periodicals, and rare archival sources to tell the story of jazz's emergent avant-garde, providing readers with ways to listen to and understand this innovative and disruptive music. By shining a comprehensive light on an important and still-misunderstood revolutionary moment in experimental music history, he illustrates the fundamental elements of this new music and what made it so experimental within the context of modern jazz. Coleman proposes heterophony--a multi-voice texture where cohesion is achieved by means other than tonal center and meter--as a theoretical lens by which to interpret the affectual force of the new thing's abstract harmonic textures and rhythms. In doing so, he draws connections to the social and political world that enveloped and motivated the musicians, writers, and listeners at the heart of the new thing's practice, recordings, and publicity. In his chronological account of the music's development in the early 1960s, Coleman offers readers a new framework to better understand the aesthetics and converging cultural currents of experimental free improvisation in the 1960s.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Opening: "Free" Jazz
Chapter 1: Shapes of Jazz to Come
Chapter 2: Free to Not Make Sense
Chapter 3: Interlude--Points of Departure
Chapter 4: Sound And Fury
Chapter 5: Anti Jazz. Anti Music.
Closing: Black Power
Acknowledgements
Selected Discography
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
