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This book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis by examining the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz. The production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, trace strange, unexpected, and at times ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, Sixties politics, and patronage networks. Anderson emphasizes free improvisation's enormous impact on jazz music's institutional standing, despite ongoing resistance from some of its biggest beneficiaries. He concludes that attempts by African American artists and intellectuals to define a place for themselves in American life, structural changes in the music industry, and the rise of nonprofit sponsorship portended a significant transformation of established cultural standards. At the same time, free improvisation's growing prestige depended in part upon traditional highbrow criteria: increasingly esoteric styles, changing venues and audience behavior, European sanction, withdrawal from the marketplace, and the professionalization of criticism. Thus jazz music's performers and supporters—and potentially those in other arts—have both challenged and accommodated themselves to an ongoing process of cultural stratification. (from the publisher's web site)
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America)
July 2007, University of Pennsylvania Press
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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America)
October 15, 2006, University of Pennsylvania Press
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