New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique

by Ronald M. Radano

Book Overview

New Musical Figurations exemplifies a dramatically new way of configuring jazz music and history. By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture--a culture that has eroded conventional categories defining jazz and the jazz musician. Radano accomplishes all this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226701964
• ISBN13: 9780226701967
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"