Aesthetics of Resistance. Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement.

Dunkel, Mario

ISBN 10: 3643902549 / ISBN 13: 9783643902542

Published by Münster, Lit, 2012

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gr-8°. 102 S. Sehr gut, ungelesen. MasteRResearch, 4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aesthetics of Resistance. Charles Mingus and the Civil Rights Movement.
• Publisher: Münster, Lit
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3643902549
• ISBN 13: 9783643902542
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Musikliteratur - books on music

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Synopsis

This book illuminates the various ways in which Charles Mingus's music interacted with the sociocultural movements of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It explores the artist as a pioneer of an idiomatic aesthetics of resistance in jazz music that is rooted in African American traditions and is much more than merely a form of protest. Mingus's music presents a continuous challenge to an unimaginative, streamlined culture built on racism and conformity by openly protesting against it, by questioning its historical foundations, and by exemplifying its countercultural antithesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 4)