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    Digging by Baraka, Amiri;

    The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

    Series: Music of the African Diaspora;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher University of California Press
    • Date of Publication 12 June 2009

    • ISBN 9780520257153
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages436 pages
    • Size 234x158x31 mm
    • Weight 849 g
    • Language English
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    For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous--Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane--and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados--Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.

    "Meditations on black music, primarily jazz, that American classical music, that will satisfy anyone who desires intelligent thought on the genre."--Beat Scene Magazine

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction

    Part One: Essays

    1. Griot/Djali: Poetry, Music, History, Message
    2. Miles Later
    3. The "Blues Aesthetic" and the "Black Aesthetic": Aesthetics as the Continuing Political History of a Culture
    4. Blues People: Looking Both Ways
    5. Rhythm
    6. The American Popular Song: "The Great American Song Book"
    7. Blues Line
    8. Cosby and the Music
    9. Nina Returns
    10. Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Music
    11. Not "the Boss": Bruce Springsteen
    12. Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (from the Underground)
    13. "The International Business of Jazz" and the Need for the Cooperative and Collective Self-Development of an International People's Culture
    14. Newark's' "Coast" and the Hidden Legacy of Urban Culture
    15. Black Music as a Force for Social Change
    16. What You Mean, DuWop?
    17. Classical American Music
    18. Singers and the Music (A Theater Piece)
    19. Newark's Influence on American Music
    20. Black Music in Newark: A Proposal
    21. Bopera Theory
    22. "Jazz and the White Critic": Thirty Years Later
    23. Random Notes on the Last Decade

    Part Two: Great Musicians

    24. Panthalassa: Miles Davis
    25. When Miles Split!
    26. David Murray, Ming's Samba
    27. David Murray, Fo Deuk Revue
    28. David Murray, Addenda to a Concert
    29. On Reissuing Trane
    30. John Coltrane: Why His Legacy Continues
    31. Some Memories of Alan Shorter: Interview with Wayne Shorter
    32. High Art: Art Tatum
    33. Max Roach at the Iridium
    34. Paris Max
    35. The Great Max Roach
    36. Billie Holiday
    37. The High Priest of Be Bop
    38. Eric Dolphy: A Note
    39. Jackie Mc
    40. It Ain't about You
    41. You Ever Hear Albert Ayler?
    42. Albert's Will
    43. Sassy Was Definitely Not the Avon Lady
    44. Fred
    45. Fred Hopkins's Memorial
    46. Duke Ellington: The Music's "Great Spirit"
    47. Duke Was a Very Great Pianist!
    48. Blind Tom: The Continuity of Americana
    49. Don Pullen Leaves Us
    50. Black History Month Rediscovers "the Music" in New York City
    51. Black History Month Rediscovers "the Music," Part 2: The Charles Tolliver Big Band at the Jazz Standard
    52. Wonderful Stevie
    53. Abbey Lincoln
    54. Four Tough Good-byes: Jackie McLean, John Hicks, Hilton Ruiz, Halim Suliman

    Part Three: Notes, Reviews, and Observations

    55. Impulse Sampler, Act on Impulse
    56. Ralph Peterson
    57. Andrew Cyrille, Good to Go
    58. Odean Pope Saxophone Choir, Epitome
    59. Ravi Coltrane, Moving Pictures
    60. Donal Fox and David Murray, Ugly Beauty
    61. Tyrone Jefferson, Connections
    62. James Moody
    63. Barry Harris: In the Tradition
    64. Pharoah Sanders, Shukuru
    65. Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet, Breakthrough
    66. Von and Chico Freeman, Freeman and Freeman
    67. Alan Shorter, Orgasm
    68. The Work Man: Reggie Workman
    69. Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory
    70. Jimmy Scott, But Beautiful
    71. Malachi Thompson, Talking Horns
    72. The Nexus Orchestra, Seize the Time
    73. Three Fresh Ticklers
    74. Rodney Kendrick, Last Chance for Common Sense
    75. Jazz Times Review, Multiple Artists
    76. More Young Bloods to the Rescue!
    77. Vijay Iyer, Memorophilia
    78. TriFactor, If You Believe
    79. Live Lessons
    80. New York Art Quintet
    81. Peter Brötzmann, Nipples, and Joe McPhee, Nation Time
    82. Jon Jang and David Murray, River of Life
    83. Trio Three, Encounter
    84. Jackie Mc--Coming and Going

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