New Musical Figurations
Subtitle: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 30, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226701950
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Blues; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Jazz; Music; Music/Songbooks; General; Musical Instruments - Woodwinds; Music / Musical Instruments / Woodwinds; History & Criticism - General; Biography; Braxton, Anthony; History and criticism; Jazz musicians; United States
First sentence: For a stretch of time in the mid-1970s, composer-saxophonist Anthony Braxton stood at the center of a controversy that laid bare the inadequacies of conventional jazz criticism.