Uptown Conversation
The New Jazz Studies
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"Uptown Conversation allows us to eavesdrop on one of the most exciting intellectual jam sessions of our times, the dynamic dialogue bubbling out of Robert O'Meally's Jazz Study Group at Columbia. There is a sparky interconnectedness in this collection, stemming no doubt from the fact that the authors are not only grouped together on paper, but regularly gather off the page to exchange ideas. Uptown Conversations invites its readers to participate in a sustained and refreshingly diverse dialogue on such questions as "how do we look at jazz in a global context," and "how should historians narra...
"Uptown Conversation allows us to eavesdrop on one of the most exciting intellectual jam sessions of our times, the dynamic dialogue bubbling out of Robert O'Meally's Jazz Study Group at Columbia. There is a sparky interconnectedness in this collection, stemming no doubt from the fact that the authors are not only grouped together on paper, but regularly gather off the page to exchange ideas. Uptown Conversations invites its readers to participate in a sustained and refreshingly diverse dialogue on such questions as "how do we look at jazz in a global context," and "how should historians narrate the jazz past?" Let me off uptown! This is new jazz studies at its best."
-Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
Building on Robert G. O´Meally´s acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted, Romare Bearden´s beautifully turned stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre, Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from musicians and filmmakers to painters and poets, jazz has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures.
Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import. Articles contemplate the music´s experimental wing -George Lewis´s much needed overview of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Salim Washington´s unraveling of the very notion of an avant-garde, or George Lipsitz´s polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns´s documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott´s Pan-Afrikan Arkestra -and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. The book also considers how settings outside the United States have transformed the music.
Contributors: Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University · George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Cruz · Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan · George Lewis, Columbia University · Herman Beavers, Ohio University · John Szwed, Yale University
-Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas
Building on Robert G. O´Meally´s acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted, Romare Bearden´s beautifully turned stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre, Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from musicians and filmmakers to painters and poets, jazz has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures.
Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import. Articles contemplate the music´s experimental wing -George Lewis´s much needed overview of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Salim Washington´s unraveling of the very notion of an avant-garde, or George Lipsitz´s polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns´s documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott´s Pan-Afrikan Arkestra -and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. The book also considers how settings outside the United States have transformed the music.
Contributors: Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University · George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Cruz · Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan · George Lewis, Columbia University · Herman Beavers, Ohio University · John Szwed, Yale University
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