
Latin Jazz
The Other Jazz
Christopher Washburne(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 29. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-19-751084-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz insider, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz corrects the record, providing a historical account that embraces the genre's international nature and explores the dynamic interplay of economics, race, ethnicity, and nationalism that shaped it.
Reviews / Votes
The volume is well organized and includes an extensive bibliography...Highly Recommended. * J.C. Wanser, CHOICE * Absorbing, illuminating, thought provoking, this is the scholarly work that Latin jazz knew it needed. * Songlines * Chris Washburne has put together an amazingly well researched and engaging book. It not only serves as an illuminating guide through the longstanding and complex relationship between Latin America and Jazz music, but makes the case for Latin American Jazz musicians as major players in the development and evolution of this genre. Highly recommended. * Miguel Zenon, (Saxophonist, Composer and Educator) * Dr. Washburne has the receipts! Informed by the author's decades as a working musician and bandleader, this passionate work of high-level scholarship counterpoints historical inquiry with lived ecstatic experience. In laying out his case for the multicultural nature of music, Washburne goes straight to the thorny issue of how racialized and nationalized genre divides have repeatedly erased the fundamentally modern, world-shaking, Afro-Latin music from the overarching jazz narrative. Meanwhile, he's eager to introduce you to the rich world of musical geniuses who are living and creating in clave right now. * Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music * Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz deftly combines history, ethnography, and personal anecdote. The volume is not, by Washburne's admission, a comprehensive history of Latin jazz, but rather a big idea book focusing on the development (and othering) of this music in New York City, the primary site of his dual careers as performer and educator. * Ray Allen, Ethnomusicology * The jazz world is both unified and fractioned. It presents itself as a tradition, and yet, the question of what is or is not jazz continues to be asked. In his book, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz, ethnomusicologist Christopher Washburne teases out the separation of Latin jazz from the rest of the jazz world by tracing the overlapping aspects of jazz and Latin jazz histories from the colonial to the contemporary era...To do so, he focuses on the processes of globalization, canonization, race relations, and genre construction and how they intersect with Latin jazz history and, more broadly, jazz history. * Hannah Krall, Jazz and Culture 6.1 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13 musical examples; 30 figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-751084-1 (9780197510841)
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Book
06/2020
Oxford University Press Inc
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Person
Christopher Washburne is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the Founder and Director of Columbia's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. As a trombonist, he has performed on over 150 recordings and leads his own SYOTOS Latin jazz band and the Rags and Roots jazz band.
Author
Assistant Professor of EthnomusicologyAssistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Other Jazz
Chapter 1: Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural music
Chapter 2: Caribbean and Latin American Reverberations and the First Birth of Latin Jazz: New Orleans and the Spanish Tinge
Chapter 3: The Second Birth of Latin Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the Rumba
Chapter 4: El Tema del Apollo: Latin American and Caribbean music in Harlem
Chapter 5: The "Othering" of Latin Jazz
Chapter 6: "More Cowbell": Latin Jazz in the 21st Century
Epilogue
References
Introduction: The Other Jazz
Chapter 1: Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural music
Chapter 2: Caribbean and Latin American Reverberations and the First Birth of Latin Jazz: New Orleans and the Spanish Tinge
Chapter 3: The Second Birth of Latin Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the Rumba
Chapter 4: El Tema del Apollo: Latin American and Caribbean music in Harlem
Chapter 5: The "Othering" of Latin Jazz
Chapter 6: "More Cowbell": Latin Jazz in the 21st Century
Epilogue
References