Fumi Okiji 
Jazz As Critique [EPUB ebook] 
Adorno and Black Expression Revisited

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A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno’s writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests, can provide insight into the controlling, destructive nature of modern society while offering a glimpse of more empathetic and less violent ways of being together in the world. Taking Adorno down a path he did not go, this book calls attention to an alternative sociality made manifest in jazz. In response to writing that tends to portray it as a mirror of American individualism and democracy, Fumi Okiji makes the case for jazz as a model of ‘gathering in difference.’Noting that this mode of subjectivity emerged in response to the distinctive history of black America, she reveals that the music cannot but call the integrity of the world into question.

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Table des matières

Introduction
1. Jazz, Individualism, and the Black Modern
2. Double Consciousness and the Critical Potential of Black Expression
3. Black Dwelling, a Refuge for the Homeless
4. Storytelling, Sound, and Silence
5. Postscript: Some Thoughts on the Inadequacy and Indispensability of Jazz Records

A propos de l’auteur

Fumi Okiji is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 160 ● ISBN 9781503605862 ● Taille du fichier 0.3 MB ● Maison d’édition Stanford University Press ● Publié 2018 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6283727 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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