Title | 70s Jazz in the Contemporary Classroom: A View from New York City |
Publication Type | Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Author | Kibbee, Brendan |
Newspaper/Magazine | Ethnomusicology Review |
Date Published | 06/2015 |
Publisher | GSA Publications at UCLA |
City | Los Angeles |
Publication Language | English |
Keywords | 1970s, Activism, African American Music, community involvement, jazz, New York City, Politics, timbre |
"In this post, I focus on two developments—out of many possibilities—taking place within the jazz idiom in the 1970s: (1) an “explosion of timbres,” and (2) an increasingly explicit orientation towards self-organization and urban activism among musicians. The argument that I trace through these two developments is threefold: first, although a broadening timbral spectrum and an orientation towards self-organization and activism occurred throughout many genres, jazz artists were central to their proliferation in the 1970s; second, timbre and activist orientations towards music both render the music affectively powerful through their political significance; third, it is largely through these developments that we can understand the legacy of 1970s jazz on the broader contemporary landscape."
http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/70s-jazz-contemporary-classroom-view-new-york-city