Northern sun, southern moon : Europe's reinvention of jazz /

Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisational and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant. At the same time European jazz continued to follow the American model. When the creators of so-called free j...

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Main Author: Heffley, Mike
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Now was the time
  • Emancipation I: from hierarchy
  • Mangelsdorff, Kühn, Globokar: three ways back and out
  • Italy, Scandinavia, England, Holland, France: five ways in
  • Emancipation II: to panarchy
  • Hampel, Brötzmann, von Schlippenbach: panarchy rising
  • Gumpert, Sommer, Bauer, Petrovsky: panarchy spreading
  • Emancipation III: the archaic freedom
  • The free world beyond America
  • The marriage of time and Archē
  • Now is the time.