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Publications Pages Publications Pages. Search my Subject Specializations: Classical, Early, and Medieval Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval World History: Civil War American History: Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. In this case not only as an inspiration through jazz but as the logical step individuals with a white middle-class background would take to put new experience into the medium they were most connected with: And here, just as in other subcultures, experience and a different way of seeing life gave way to the recording of experience: According to Ford, it was also the inability to understand the message of bebop and the African-American experience as a background for the abstract content of the music for some of the writers.
So their message was rather verbalized experience based on oral forms of documentation, even though still doomed to remain on the printed page.
Ford is a fantastic writer. Sound and Music in Hip Culture. So look forward to encountering text and ideas by Mezz Mezzrow, Ross Russel, Bernard Wolfe and other writers on jazz too. Choose your country or region Close. In the introduction and first chapter, Ford lays the intellectual framework for the [End Page ] rest of the book. Table of Contents Introduction:
In the chapters to follow the author continues on the evolution of jazz in the s and s, devotes a lot of text to brilliant Chicago radio man Ken Nordine and finally picks up the ideas of unique jazz collage artist John Benson Brooks, inventor of DJology physical musical sampling in and comes to certain conclusions about the nature of Western consumer culture.
Furthermore, much has been written on hipsters in the last years, and hardly a handful of texts has been satisfying, in my opinion.
Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture Hardcover – August 13, In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the. Editorial Reviews. Review. "Important, rewarding, and meaningful piece of scholarship. Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture - Kindle edition by Phil Ford.
The style, rather journalism than academic text, has a lot to do with it. For he also sees the difficulties for a particular group that stops participating to foster participation: Sound and Music in Hip Culture. I see that Mr. Ford has done his part to illuminate.
Yeah, the whole last chapter of the book is about JBB! Phil spent some time going through his archives out at Rutgers and contemplated writing a biography, but decided that the chapter in Dig covered most of what he had to say about Brooks.
He delves pretty deeply into Avant Slant , which sank into obscurity almost immediately after its release. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.
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