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The Amazing Bud Powell Guthrie P. Ramsey

The Amazing Bud Powell By Guthrie P. Ramsey

The Amazing Bud Powell by Guthrie P. Ramsey


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Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance.

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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American music's most misunderstood figures, and the story of his exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white authorities. In this first extended study of the social significance of Powell's place in the American musical landscape, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms. Illuminating and multi-layered, The Amazing Bud Powell centralizes Powell's contributions as it details the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of blackness.

The Amazing Bud Powell Reviews

Ramsey writes with a musician's ear... Full of beauty and that edgy logic. -- John Mole The Times Literary Supplement An important, thoughtful work for those wishing to probe beyond cliches. DownBeat Equal parts biography, historiography, and music analysis, Ramsey's brilliant study represents a much-needed examination of one of jazz's most influential pianists and artists. Notes

About Guthrie P. Ramsey

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the prize-winning Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (UC Press).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cullud Boys with Beards: Serious Black Music and the Art of Bebop 2. Something Else: The Tests and Triumphs of a Modernist 3. Notes and Tones: Black Genius in the Social Order 4. Making the Changes: Jazz Manhood, Bebop Virtuosity, and a New Social Contract 5. Exploding Narratives and Structures in the Art of Bud Powell Coda: Cultural Validation and Requiem for a Heavyweight Notes Selected Bibliography Credits Index

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CIN0520243919G
9780520243910
0520243919
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey
Used - Good
Hardback
University of California Press
20130528
254
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