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 embrace all of humanity. Fans and musicians have made this claim
before, but Austerlitz is the first to provide a scholarly basis for
it. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the
U.S. and then broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African
diaspora and in very different transnational scenes, from the Dominican
Republic to Finland.
Based on extensive fieldwork, the book
explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central
chapters is devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band
of Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of
both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks, while the final chapter includes
an extensive interview with the seminal drummer Milford Graves, one of
Austerlitz's mentors, who holds that music profoundly influences our
biorhythms and indeed shapes our thoughts.
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