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This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices-members played hundreds of instruments on stage, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab coats, and traditional African and Asian dress. The group, which built a global audience and toured across six continents, presented their work as experimental performance art, in opposition to the jazz industry's traditionalist aesthetics. In Message to Our Folks, Paul Steinbeck combines musical analysis and historical inquiry to give us the definitive study of the Art Ensemble. In the book, he proposes a new theory of group improvisation that explains how the band members were able to improvise together in so many different styles while also drawing on an extensive repertoire of notated compositions. Steinbeck examines the multimedia dimensions of the Art Ensemble's performances and the ways in which their distinctive model of social relations kept the group performing together for four decades. Message to Our Folks is a striking and valuable contribution to our understanding of one of the world's premier musical groups. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)784.41650977311The arts Music Instruments and instrumental ensembles and their music [formerly: Voice and vocal music] Folk songsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.75)
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then he creates distinct and exciting biographies of each of the first four members of what would become The Art Ensemble of Chicago.
The musician and University of Chicago student visited each of the cities where the men were born, then toured all their worldwide concert locations to write his unique vision
of the deep sense of community, mutual respect, and creative collaboration which grew from their original association with
Mural Richard Abrams Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
GREAT BLACK MUSIC: ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE guided the men, led by the indomitable Roscoe Mitchell, in their quest to create a new experimental music,
free from any constraints, yet clearly mindful of the gratitude owed to their gospel, blues, rock, jazz, classical, and African roots.
Steinbeck traces their route from nights, weeks, months, and years of few concerts on Chicago's Southeast side to their glorious welcome
in Paris and their growth into musicians and composers renowned throughout the world: "Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman,
Malachi Favors, and Don Moye - The Art Ensemble of Chicago, folks, The Art Ensemble of Chicago!!!"
The author then moves into a lengthy elaboration of "A Jackson in Your House."
(One gifted and speculative musical analysis was fine; three was too many.)
It would have been good if Steinbeck had followed the I-G-I improvisation mode:
he covered Individual beginnings, then analyzed the Group music...but the sequence
of Individual lives, as in the early biographies, is not taken up again after four move away from Chicago.
It also would have been welcome to include the history of The Great Migrations
which precluded the creation of Bronzeville.
Further, did these five handsome, vigorous, intelligent, funny, and personable men truly exist in a world with no women?
No Grandmothers, Mothers, Sisters, Aunts, Lovers, Wives, Daughters offered any support, inspiration,
or even dinners and homes...?!? Fontella Bass is the only female accorded any recognition.
For those fortunate enough to live in Chicago in the 1960s, MESSAGE TO OUR FOLKS supplies many great memories.
For Chicagoans who may have missed this part of their heritage, for other old and new fans,
and for those who wished we had been there, we are left wanting to learn and to hear more.
More fortune smiles here since The Art Ensemble of Chicago, still led by Mr. Mitchell, will soon commemorate its 50th year,
complete with celebrations and concerts around the world! (