Civic Jazz

图书信息

作者	Clark, Gregory
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226218359
出版时间	2015-02-25
字数	43.5万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke's concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music's aesthetic encounters with a rigorous sort of democracy, this book weaves an innovative argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture.Jazz music, Clark argues, demonstrates how this aesthetic rhetoric of identification can bind people together through their shared experience in a common project. While such shared experience does not demand agreement-indeed, it often has an air of competition-it does align people in practical effort and purpose. Similarly, Clark shows, Burke considered Americans inhabitants of a persistently rhetorical situation, in which each must choose constantly to identify with some and separate from others. Thought-provoking and path-breaking, Clark's harmonic mashup of music and rhetoric will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Marcus Roberts

1 Setting Up

2 A Rhetorical Aesthetic of Jazz

3 What Jazz Is

4 Where Jazz Comes From

5 What Jazz Does

6 How Jazz Works

7 So What?

Notes

Bibliography

Discography

Index