Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity

by Paul Austerlitz

Book Overview

Grounded essays on jazz as a unifying and transcendent force.

Winner of the Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize (2006)

Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds it--embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567825
• ISBN13: 9780819567826
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up