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Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

  • Author: Heble, Ajay
To properly appreciate Landing on the Wrong Noteyou have to put on your thinking cap, find a quiet place, and wade through a high density of ideas More…

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Contents

  • 1. The Poetics of Jazz: From Symbolic to Semiotic
  • 2. The Rehistoricizing of Jazz: Chicago's "Urban Bushmen" and the Problem of Representation
  • 3. Performing Identity: Jazz Autobiography and the Politics of Literary Improvisation
  • 4. "Space is the Place": Jazz, Voice, and Resistance
  • 5. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Women in Jazz
  • 6. Capitulating to Barbarism: Jazz and/as Popular Culture
  • 7. Up for Grabs: The Ethicopolitical Authority of Jazz Conclusion Works Cited Sound and Video Recordings Consulted.