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Creative Improvised Music
An International Bibliography of the Jazz Avant-Garde, 1959-Present
By John Gray
Price: $150.00
Binding: Cloth
ISBN: 9780984413485
656 pages
African Diaspora Press
PPub. Date: July 2019
SUBJECTS
Music Reference
Music Reference
Jazz Studies
American Studies
Black/Diaspora Studies
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SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series
SERIES NUMBER: 9
DESCRIPTION
For almost three decades Fire Music, the author’s acclaimed 1991 bibliography, has been the standard reference work on the jazz avant-garde. Now, at long last, we have its companion. Creative Improvised Music picks up where that volume left off, focusing on the literature on American free jazz and European free improvisation published since the early 1990s, as well as older works and archival material not included in its predecessor. In this new iteration users will find information not only on the music’s pioneers but also on hundreds of other improviser-composers, ensembles, and collectives which have emerged in recent years.
The current volume is organized into three easy to navigate sections—General Works; Regional Studies; and Biographical and Critical Studies—allowing users to quickly access the information they need. It also includes a detailed subject index which offers a key to all of the book’s sections and another way to quickly pinpoint citations by topic, geographical location, personal name, and instrument.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is a veteran bibliographer specializing in the expressive culture of Africa and the African diaspora. His previous publications include Music of Sub-Saharan Africa, Hip-Hop Studies and more than a dozen other titles. His work Baila! A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics from Mambo to Salsa, was the recipient of the 2015 Vincent H. Duckles Award (for best book-length bibliography or reference work published in 2013) from the Music Library Association.
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