Nichole Rustin-Paschal

The Kind of Man I Am

Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 230 Seiten
ISBN 0819577561
EAN 9780819577566
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2017
Verlag/Hersteller Wesleyan University Press
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Beschreibung

Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus-s ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity-as well as those of other individuals in his circle, like Celia Mingus, Hazel Scott, and Joni Mitchell-challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture. This book challenges the persisting narrative of Mingus as jazz-s -Angry Man- by examining the ways the language of emotion has been used in jazz as shorthand for competing ideas about masculinity, authenticity, performance, and authority.

Portrait

NICHOLE RUSTIN-PASCHAL earned a JD from the University of Virginia and a PhD from New York University. She is coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.