Black Talk: Roots of Jazz by Ben Sidran (English) Paperback Book

Description: Black Talk by Ben Sidran "Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a whi" FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Black Music,whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul,has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those rare books since LeRoi Joness Blues People to examine the social function of black music in the diaspora it sounds the depths of experience and maps the history of a culture from the jazz age to the revolutionary outbursts of the 1960s. Ben Sidran finds radical challenges to the Western, white literary tradition in such varied music as Buddy Boldens loud and hoarse cornet style, the call and response between brass and reeds in a swing band, the emotionalism of gospel, the primitivism of Ornette Coleman, and the cool ethic of bebop. "The musician is the document," says Sidran. "He is the information himself. The impact of stored information is transmitted not through records or archives, but through the human response to life." Author Biography Ben Sidran is a performing and recording musician, producer, composer, host of radio and television music programs, music historian, and writer. Kirkus US Review "Black talk" of course is black music is babble - oral/aural vs. white (Western Civilization) "linear semantics" as the author demonstrates several very un-hip times per page of this hodgepodge study of the relationship between music and nearly everything else in Black America from slavery on up, up, up. Sentences like "They had already accepted the oral orientation of nonanalysis and were learning how to apply the concept of actionality" abound as the author uses repetition and sociological gobbledygook to reconcile contradictions (hed call it dialecticism) to arrive at the tautological center where anything goes. Every overworked culture hero from Marshall McLuhan to Ludwig Wittgenstein (not to mention Stokeley and Abbie) puts in at least a brief appearance in a vain attempt to lend erudition to what is essentially a slight history of the development of jazz, weak on soul, rhythm-and-blues, and nearly everything else. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Black Music,whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul,has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a white majority. Black Talk is one of those rare books since LeRoi Joness Blues People to examine the social function of black music in the diaspora it sounds the depths of experience and maps the history of a culture from the jazz age to the revolutionary outbursts of the 1960s. Ben Sidran finds radical challenges to the Western, white literary tradition in such varied music as Buddy Boldens loud and hoarse cornet style, the call and response between brass and reeds in a swing band, the emotionalism of gospel, the primitivism of Ornette Coleman, and the cool ethic of bebop. "The musician is the document," says Sidran. "He is the information himself. The impact of stored information is transmitted not through records or archives, but through the human response to life." Details ISBN0306801841 Series Da Capo Paperback Language English ISBN-10 0306801841 ISBN-13 9780306801846 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 1983 Imprint Da Capo Press Inc Subtitle Roots of Jazz Place of Publication Cambridge, MA Short Title BLACK TALK REV/E Edition Description Revised Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780306801846 UK Release Date 1983-03-22 US Release Date 1983-03-22 Author Ben Sidran Pages 244 Publisher Hachette Books Publication Date 1983-03-22 DEWEY 781.65 Audience Professional & Vocational NZ Release Date 1983-03-21 AU Release Date 1983-03-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:7022300;

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