Dr. Billy Taylor, 'America's Classical Music,' and the Role of the Jazz Ambassador
| Autor: | Tom Arnold-Forster |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Value (ethics)
Critical perspective General Arts and Humanities General Social Sciences The Renaissance Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Variety (linguistics) The arts 060104 history Classical music Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Jazz |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American Studies. 51:117-139 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5154 0021-8758 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0021875815002662 |
| Popis: | The idea of jazz as “America's classical music” has become a powerful way of defining the music, asserting its national and artistic value, and shaping its scholarly study. The present article provides a history of this idea through a close analysis of its primary theorist and most visible spokesperson, Dr. Billy Taylor. It argues that the idea was not a neoclassical and conservative product of the 1980s, but had important roots in the Black Arts imperatives of the later 1960s and early 1970s. It suggests that Taylor initially made the idea work inventively and productively in a variety of contexts, especially through his community arts project Jazzmobile, but that these contexts diverged as his public profile was stretched thin across and beyond the United States. The idea's disintegration into clichéd ubiquity in the mid-1980s then provides a critical perspective on the idea of the “jazz renaissance,” and an opportunity to consider the role of the jazz ambassador in the context of debates about African American intellectuals. |
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