Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

by Steven Feld

Book Overview

In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, Feld conveys a diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests American nationalist and Afrocentric narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351625
• ISBN13: 9780822351627
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"