{"product_id":"the-jazz-cadence-of-american-culture-paperback","title":"The Jazz Cadence of American Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert O'Meally\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is \"jazz-shaped,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Cadence of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, O'Meally confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in unexpected ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized thematically, these provocative pieces include an essay considering poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of a recent melding of jazz music and dance, \u003ci\u003eBring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk\u003c\/i\u003e. From Stanley Crouch to August Wilson to Jacqui Malone, the plurality of voices gathered here reflects the variety of expression within jazz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's opening section sketches the overall place of jazz in America. Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner unpack the word \u003ci\u003ejazz\u003c\/i\u003e and its register, Albert Murray considers improvisation in music and life, Amiri Baraka argues that white critics misunderstand jazz, and Stanley Crouch cogently dissects the intersections of jazz and mainstream American democratic institutions. After this, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring jazz and the visual arts, dance, sports, history, memory, and literature. Ann Douglas writes on jazz's influence on the design and construction of skyscrapers in the 1920s and '30s, Zora Neale Hurston considers the significance of African-American dance, Michael Eric Dyson looks at the jazz of Michael Jordan's basketball game, and Hazel Carby takes on the sexual politics of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith's blues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Cadence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wealth of insight and information for scholars, students, jazz aficionados, and any reader wishing to know more about this music form that has put its stamp on American culture more profoundly than any other in the twentieth century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert G. O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of American Literature at Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 10 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762701173024,"sku":"9780231104494","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6b6c18fa05017a40e1b15f16d19c33fe.webp?v=1780223809","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-jazz-cadence-of-american-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}