The Jazz Review, Vol.1, No.1 (Nov. 1958)
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Popular Song
Music, Race, and Nation
Columbia University
Department of Music
Reflections on Jazz and the Politics of Race
In this interview with Professor Jim Merod, composer and trombonist Tom McIntosh reflects on overcoming many kinds of racial barriers, criticizes the idea of jazz as an expression of "primitive" human culture, and explores the impact of African-American culture on popular music.
Of Sunshine and Happy Endings: Jazz, Parody, and the Limits of Interpretation
Stanbridge examines two recordings by the composer George Russell of the country and western standard "You Are My Sunshine." Russell's complex renditions, aided by Sheila Jordan's emotionally fraught vocals, pitted the song's rustic associations against the alienation he saw in modern technology and violence. The multileveled, perhaps cynical parody militates against any "happy endings" and, Stanbridge argues, any fixed interpretation of the performance, whether through modernist or postmodernist lenses.
Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz
The full text of a pathbreaking early book on jazz.
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