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Jazz Modernism
Alfred Appel
其他書名
From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
出版Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
主題Art / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralMusic / GeneralMusic / History & CriticismMusic / Genres & Styles / Jazz
ISBN03945339339780394533933
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9CgYAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Alfred Appel, author of The Annotated Lolita ("superb...full of vigor, gems, and stratagems" - Vladimir Nabokov), compares the layering of sex, vitality, and the vernacular in jazz with the paper collages of Picasso, and the vital mix of high and low culture found in Joyce. He shows how the musical construct of jazz was pared down by the masters as sculpture was in Calder's hands or prose in Hemingway's. He makes clear how Armstrong and Waller tore apart and rebuilt Tin Pan Alley material in the way that modernists in the visual arts arrived at wood assemblage and scrap-metal sculpture. He enables us to see that Ellington's "jungle" style was as un-primitive as Brancusi's self-conscious Africanesque sculpture. And along the way, he "recalls" live jazz performances during the 1950s by Armstrong and John Coltrane, among others, and the night Charlie Parker played to a visibly thrilled Igor Stravinsky at Birdland."--BOOK JACKET.