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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music de George E. Lewis

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

Autor George E. Lewis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2009

Subliniem relevanța fundamentală a acestei lucrări pentru cercetătorii și studenții din domeniul muzicologiei și al studiilor culturale, oferind un cadru analitic riguros necesar înțelegerii avangardei americane. A Power Stronger Than Itself nu este doar o cronică istorică, ci un studiu academic exhaustiv despre Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Suntem de părere că perspectiva unică a lui George E. Lewis, care îmbină rigoarea profesorului de la Columbia University cu experiența directă a membrului activ în colectiv, transformă acest text într-o resursă indispensabilă pentru orice program de studii etnice sau de istorie a muzicii experimentale.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul structurează materialul, pornind de la preistoria mișcării în contextul Marii Migrații și al Segregării din Chicago, până la recunoașterea internațională pe scenele din Paris sau Carnegie Hall. Comparabil cu Sound Experiments de Paul Steinbeck în rigurozitatea documentării, volumul de față se diferențiază prin abordarea „simfonică” a narațiunii, care prioritizează vocile colectivului în detrimentul unei analize pur muzicale. Dacă în lucrări anterioare precum Artificial Music, Lewis explora intersecția dintre algoritmi și creativitate, aici el revine la rădăcinile umane și sociale ale inovației, demonstrând cum autodidacticismul și spiritul comunitar au redefinit estetica americană.

Structura celor 728 de pagini este una progresivă, oferind rezumate de capitole care facilitează parcurgerea densității informaționale. De la „Culturile spontaneității” la impactul mișcării Black Power asupra instituțiilor artistice, George E. Lewis construiește o analiză critică a locului AACM în peisajul socio-economic și politic al Statelor Unite, susținută vizual de o colecție impresionantă de imagini rare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226476964
ISBN-10: 0226476960
Pagini: 728
Ilustrații: 4 color plates, 71 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 46 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

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Recomandăm această carte pentru documentarea sa fără precedent asupra uneia dintre cele mai influente instituții artistice americane. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care arta experimentală poate servi drept instrument de emancipare socială. Este o resursă esențială pentru profesioniștii din mediul academic și pasionații de jazz care doresc să exploreze mecanismele interne ale unui colectiv care a supraviețuit și a inovat timp de peste jumătate de secol.

Despre autor

George E. Lewis este profesor de muzică americană (catedra Edwin H. Case) la Columbia University și o figură centrală a avangardei contemporane. Laureat al prestigioasei burse MacArthur în 2002, Lewis are o carieră prodigioasă, cu peste 120 de înregistrări în calitate de compozitor sau interpret. Membru al AACM din 1971, el a devenit unul dintre cei mai importanți teoreticieni ai improvizației și ai muzicii experimentale, explorând în lucrările sale deopotrivă dimensiunile tehnologice ale sunetului și fundamentele sociale ale creației artistice colective.

Descriere scurtă

Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images.

Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.

Cuprins

Preface: The AACM and American Experimentalism 
Introduction: An AACM Book: Origins, Antecedents, Objectives, Methods 
Chapter Summaries 
Acknowledgments 

Chapter 1: Foundations and Prehistory
 Coming North: From Great Migration to Great Depression 
 Early Musical Experiences 
 Improvisation and Autodidacticism in 1950s Chicago 
 The End of an Era 

Chapter 2: New Music, New York 
 Cultures of Spontaneity: Integrationism and the Two Avant-Gardes 
 Beyond a Bebop Boundary: The Challenge of New Music 
 Critical Responses: Anger, Noise, Failure 
 A Far Cry from New York: Segregation and Chicago Music 

Chapter 3: The Development of the Experimental Band 
 Alternative Pedagogies of Experimental Music 
 Eyes on the Sparrow: The First New Chicagoans 

Chapter 4: Founding the Collective 
 Urban Decline and the Turn to Communitarianism 
 Born on the Kitchen Table: Conceiving the Association 
 Naming Ceremony: Black Power and Black Institutions 

Chapter 5: First Fruits 
 The First Year: Concerts, Critics, and Issues 
 New Arrivals and the University of Chicago 
 Travel, Recording, and Intermedia 
 Memories of the Sun: The AACM and Sun Ra 

Chapter 6: The AACM Takes Off 
 The Black Arts Movement in Chicago 
 New Arrivals and New Ideas 
 The AACM School 
 Performing and Self-Determination 
 Cultural Nationalism in Postmodern Transition 

Chapter 7: Americans in Paris 
 Conceiving the World Audience 
 Le Nouveau Paris Noir: Collectivity, Competition, and Excitement 
 The Politics of Culture: Black Power and May 1968 
 Die Emanzipation: The Rise of European Free Improvisation 
 Homecoming 

Chapter 8: The AACM’s Next Wave 
 More from the Midwest: The Black Artists Group 
 New Elbows on the Table: The AACM’s Second Wave 
 Ten Years After: The Association Comes of Age 

Chapter 9: The AACM in New York 
 Migration and Invasion 
 Europe and the Lofts 
 Beyond a Binary: The AACM and the Crisis in Criticism 
 Diversity and Its Discontents: New American Music after the Jazz Age 

Chapter 10: The New Regime in Chicago 
 Generational Shifts in the Collective 
 The Two Cultures and a New Chapter 
 Form and Funding: Philanthropy and Black Music in the 1970s 
 Strains, Swirls, and Splits 

Chapter 11: Into the Third Decade 
 The 1980s: Canons and Heterophony 
 Great Black Music: The Local and the Global 
 Leading the Third Wave: The New Women of the AACM 

Chapter 12: Transition and Reflections 
 New York in Transition 
 Chicago in Reflection 
 J’ai deux amours . . . 

Afterword 
 The Way of the Arranger 
 The Individual 
 The Book 
 Expansion and Sacrifice 
 Boxing with Tradition 
 Regrets 
 Survival 
 Contemplating the Post-jazz Continuum 
 Atmospheres 
 Futures 

Appendix A: List of Interviews Conducted by the Author 
Appendix B: Selected AACM Recordings 

Bibliography 
Notes 
Index

Recenzii

“Written with the eye of an ethnographer, the ear of a performer, and the heart of a hometown dweller, George Lewis’s account of the development of the AACM is an engaging story, a romance in which several generations of musicians triumph to create a music that travels around the world, yet is completely unique to their experiences. Reinscribing Chicago as a city of enormous artistic vitality and tough aesthetics, A Power Stronger Than Itself brilliantly redraws the map of jazz and widens the horizon for new and experimental music.”

“George Lewis has outdone himself with this extraordinary volume. His unrelenting intelligence and ear for detail have produced a challenging compendium of late twentieth-century African Americana. This is not only a study of the AACM, it is a hope-drenched encomium to modernist creativity and the oppositional imagination.”

“The AACM is one of our great cultural inventions. This extraordinary book embodies its principles, for George Lewis draws on multiple traditions: scholarship, reportage, testament, analysis, theory and criticism come together with virtuosity and scrupulous discipline. A Power Stronger Than Itself remaps the landscape of American experimental music. Academics, critics and musicians will have to reconfigure such terms as ‘jazz,’ ‘classical,’ ‘soulful,’ ‘avant-garde,’ ‘black’ and ‘white.’ Now the past yields unexpected wonders; the future unexpected possibilities.”

"A remarkable book, not just for corralling an enormous amount of information—interviews, critical reviews, music charts, news reports (the bibliography runs 35 pages)—but for making the result a digestible and thoroughly entertaining 500-page read.”

"With A Power Stronger Than Itself, Lewis exceeds expectations. For rather than merely recount the ascent of the AACM, he elegantly sets it against the backdrop of cultural, racial and social changes that shook the twentieth century. . . . Lewis unreels this tale with dramatic flourish and scholarly authority, in effect telling the story of not only the AACM but also the city where it’s centered, Chicago."

"Lewis’s landmark book. . . goes deeper into the formation and development of the AACM than any previous history, and as a formal acknowledgement of the group’s enormous importance and influence it’s long overdue."

"This could very well be the most anticipiated book of the year. . . . The long wait is now over and patrience will be rewarded. George Lewis's encyclopedic knowledge, thorough research and in-depth interviews have produced an eye-opening work. . . . Overall, it is a pleasant read, scholarly but not overly academic in tone, covering a wide stylistic range--from essay to storytelling to autobiography."

"[Lewis] sets a new standard for scholarly writing about the people who make Great Black Music, or any other kind.. . . . Reading Lewis's book about the AACM makes one want to have been a part of it."

"Simply put, George E. Lewis' new and long-awaited history of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) must be considered among the most important books ever written about creative music. A tour de force of narrative history and analysis driven by a clearly articulated point of view, it draws on a massive body of scholarship and original research that places Great Black Music in its historical, aesthetic, and social contexts. It will certainly shape the scholarly, critical, and public discussion of jazz and creative music for years to come."

"Rich and dense and gratifyingly readable. . . . [Lewis] makes a scholarly portrait of a complex community into a ripping good and inspiring yarn."

“In bringing intellectual breadth and what Lester Bowie calls ‘good old country ass-kicking’ to bear on past and present indignities, Lewis has produced a fitting companion to the music he celebrates.”

“An important book. . . . Mr. Lewis narrates its development with exacting context and incisive analysis, occasionally delving into academic cultural theory. But because the book includes biographical portraits of so many participating musicians, it’s a swift, engrossing read.”

"Very dense but very readable, filled with fascinating stories, capsule bios and rewarding side trips. Lewis has a gift for explaining abstruse ideas without dumbing down. As a reader, I'm torn between wanting to savor it slowly and devour it fast. Two hundred pages in, I've got weeks worth of stuff to think about."

"An unequaled volume on both its subject and on Black creative collectivity."

"Lewis' writing is lively, avoiding the trap of sounding too academic and instead creating a story that is compelling in its portrait of musicians dedicated to their art. This is a fine work on an area of jazz that deserves wider recognition and greater understanding."

"This essential book is music history from the inside. . . . Lewis is telling an interesting and important story here and telling it well. Anyone who is interested in modern serious music will learn from and enjoy this outstanding book."

"An illuminating, articulate panorama of a little-examined yet highly influential organization, one whose 'graduates' have permeated every element of modern music."

"The crystalline study is thoroughly engaging. . . . Even the most dedicated improvised music aficionado will find anecdotes, relationships and hitherto unknown performances and biographies laid out in stunning detail. . . . The book is a graceful intertwining of oral history, hard research and insightful scrutiny of a complicated organism."

"More than any other recent new-jazz-studies or improvisation-studies monograph, A Power Stronger Than Itself draws clear connections between the collective history and aesthetics of a community of improvisers and the musical procedures they have employed."

“A Power Stronger Than Itself is not only an essential history of the organization but a critical analysis into its place in American art, politics and socioeconomics.”