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Big Ears : Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies by Rustin, Nichole T. (editor);Tucker, Sherrie (editor);Radano, Ronald (editor);Kun, Josh (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Café Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations of how the jazzman is represented in Dorothy Baker’s novel Young Man with a Horn (1938) and Michael Curtiz’s film adaptation (1950). Taken together, the essays enrich the field of jazz studies by showing how gender dynamics have shaped the production, reception, and criticism of jazz culture. Scholars of music, ethnomusicology, American studies, literature, anthropology, and cultural studies approach the question of gender in jazz from multiple perspectives. One contributor scrutinizes the tendency of jazz historiography to treat singing as subordinate to the predominantly male domain of instrumental music, while another reflects on her doubly inappropriate position as a female trumpet player and a white jazz musician and scholar. Ot

Who reads Big Ears : Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies?

Author

Rustin, Nichole T. (editor);Tucker, Sherrie (editor);Radano, Ronald (editor);Kun, Josh (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822343363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Music, History