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NEW MUSICAL FIGURATIONS
ANTHONY BRAXTON'S CULTURAL CRITIQUE |
| By: |
Ronald M. Radano |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£94.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226701956 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226701950 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1993 |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture. Radano accomplishes this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony Braxton. |
| Synopsis: |
By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture - a culture that has eroded conventional categories defining jazz and the jazz musician. Radano accomplishes all this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony Braxton. Born in 1945, Braxton is not only a virtuoso jazz saxophonist but an innovative theoretician and composer of experimental art music. His refusal to conform to the conventions of official musical culture has helped unhinge the very ideologies on which definitions of "jazz", "black music," "popular music," and "art music" are founded. "New Musical Figurations" gives a view of this many sided artist. Radano examines Braxton's early years on the South Side of Chicago, whose vibrant black musical legacy inspired him to explore new avenues of expression. Here is a detailed history of Braxton's central role in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the principal musician-run institution of free jazz in the United States.After leaving Chicago, Braxton was active in Paris and New York, collaborating with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, and other composers affiliated with the experimental-music movement. From 1974 to 1981, he gained renown as a popular jazz performer and recording artist. Since then he has taught at Mills College and Wesleyan University, given lectures on his theoretical musical system, and written works for chamber groups as well as large, opera-scale pieces. |
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5 halftones, 19 line drawings |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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