Research Catalog

Title

Voices found : free jazz and singing / Chris Tonelli.

Author

Tonelli, Chris (Chris J.)

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

ix, 197 pages : illustration; 23 cm.

Summary

"Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the more recent wave of free jazz choirs. The author traces the developments and offers a theory, derived from interviews with many of the most important singers in the history of free jazz voice, of how listeners have experienced and evaluated the often unconventional vocal sounds these vocalists employed. This theory explains that even audiences willing to enjoy harsh sounds from saxophones or guitars often resist when voices make sounds that audiences understand as not-human. Experimental poetry and scat were combined and transformed in free jazz spaces in the 1960s and 1970s by vocalists like Yoko Ono (in solo work and her work with Ornette Coleman and John Stevens), Jeanne Lee (in her solo work and her work with Archie Shepp and Gunter Hampel), Leon Thomas (in his solo work as well as his work with Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Santana), and Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols (who devoted much of their energy to creating unaccompanied free jazz vocal music). By studying free jazz voice we can learn important lessons about what we expect from the voice and what happens when those expectations are violated. This book doesn't only trace histories of free jazz voice, it makes an attempt to understand why this story hasn't been told before, with an impressive breadth of scope in terms of the artists covered, drawing on research from the US, Canada, Wales, Scotland, France, The Netherlands, and Japan"--

Series Statement

Transnational studies in jazz

Uniform Title

Transnational studies in jazz.

Subjects

• Vocal improvisation (Music)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Jazz vocals > History and criticism
• Free jazz > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-189) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Extended, Extra-normal, and Everyday Voices -- PART I Sources -- Interdisciplinary Women and Experimental Voice In Their Own Words I - Christine Jeffrey, Phil Minton, Maggie Nicols -- Music Technologies and Vocal Finding -- Scat to Sumac to Sanders: Materialities and Sources in Soundsinging -- PART II Theories -- Vocal Village: The Rise of a New Transnational Vocal Jazz Community In Their Own Words II - David Moss, Anna Homler, Jaap Blonk, Paul Dutton -- The Policing of the non-Human Voice -- Radical Inclusivity and the Participatory Politics of Improvising Choirs In Their Own Words III - Christine Duncan, Mankwe Ndosi, Tomomi Adachi, Fay Victor, Gabriel Dharmoo, DB Boyko -- Conclusion: A Short Prayer for Social Virtuosity.

Call Number

JME 20-177

ISBN

• 9781138341029
• 1138341029
• 9781138341036
• 1138341037
• 9780429440427 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429802980 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429802966 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429802973 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019029762

OCLC

1108784710

Author

Tonelli, Chris (Chris J.), author.

Title

Voices found : free jazz and singing / Chris Tonelli.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transnational studies in jazz

Transnational studies in jazz.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-189) and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780429802973

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-727

JME 20-177