Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
This collection of erudite essarys aptly captures the spirit of those conversations...This must-have tome ups the ante on jazz banter.(John MurphJazz Times)It is also a delightful, accessible, and provocative read--a book that how jazz studies can contribute to a host of other fields.(Choice)An intellectually stimulating discussion of jazz and its many variations.(Justin Adewale CollinsBlack Issues Book Review)The focus and depth of these essays prove that this chorus can sing - and not just standards.(Larry BlumenfeldJazziz)Uptown Conversationgives us that crystallized vision and is destined to become an important source of research and reflection for many years to come.(Anne FarnsworthJazz Notes1900-01-00)Uptown Conversations... continue[s] this trajectory by moving away from jazz as a static object to be stylistically described, explained, and celebrated through the heroic and larger-than-life individual towards an understanding of jazz as a music in continual dialogue with the historical, social, political, racial, gendered process governing its creation.(Niko HigginsCurrent Musicology1900-01-00)The international community of serious jazz enthusiasts who pick up the book will be impressed.(Theodore R. HudsonEllingtonia1900-01-00)