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Riffs & choruses : a new jazz anthology / edited by Andrew Clark.

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London ; New York : Continuum, c2001.

Jazz -- History and criticism.

0826447562 (pbk.) :

xvi, 486 p. ; 25 cm.

Chorus I, the delirium tremens of syncopation: jazz and definition (origin, terms, early reception) -- Chorus II, nothin' over there but critics: jazz and history (criticism, canon, historiography) -- Chorus III, 'the sound of surprise': jazz and style (convention, repertoire, improvisation) -- Chorus IV, a people's music: jazz and culture (context, audience, social practice) -- Chorus V, black and blue: jazz and race (colour, identity, otherness) -- Chours VI, young man with a horn: jazz and myth (narrative, romance, fabulation).

Chorus VII, hear me talkin' to ya: jazz and the jazz life (orality, autobiography, mediation) -- Chorus VIII, reetie vouties with a little hot sauce: jazz and language (vernacular, argot, hipness) -- Chorus IX, spontaneous bop prosody: jazz and literature (word, text, performance) -- Chorus X, all the usual pitfalls: jazz and film (cliche, stereotype, ambience).

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