TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monson,Ingrid T.
TI  - Saying something: jazz improvisation and interaction 
T2  - Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
SN  - 9780226534794 (electronic bk.)
AV  - ML3506 .M64 1996eb
U1  - 781.65/136 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Jazz
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Improvisation (Music)
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Genres & Styles
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; Introduction; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Talking to Musicians; 2 Grooving and Feeling; 3 Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation; 4 Intermusicality; 5 Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis; 6 Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism; Coda; Notes; Interviews; Recordings; Bibliography; Index
N2  - This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in t
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