Jazz cosmopolitanism in Accra
Subtitle: a memoir of five musical years in Ghana
By: Steven Feld
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780822351481; 9780822351627
Subjects: Jazz; Music; Jazz musicians
Description: Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acoustemology in Accra : on jazz cosmopolitanism; title: Guy Warren/Ghanaba : from Afro-jazz to Handel via Max Roach; title: Nii Noi Nortey : from pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane; title: Nii Otoo Annan : from toads to polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali; title: Por por : from honk horns to jazz funerals via New Orleans; title: Beyond diasporic intimacy.