ABSTRACT

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

chapter |34 pages

The Poetics of Jazz

From Symbolic to Semiotic

chapter |26 pages

The Rehistoricizing of Jazz

Chicago's “Urban Bushmen” and the Problem of Representation

chapter |28 pages

Performing Identity

Jazz Autobiography and the Politics of Literary Improvisation

chapter |23 pages

“Space is the Place”

Jazz, Voice, and Resistance

chapter |25 pages

Nice Work if You Can Get It

women in Jazz

chapter |32 pages

Capitulating to Barbarism

Jazz and/as Popular Culture

chapter |30 pages

Up for Grabs

The Ethicopolitical Authority of Jazz

chapter |9 pages

Conclusion

Alternative Public Spheres