Christi JayWells
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance
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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance explores the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years, showing how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development. It advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies, exposing how American anxieties about bodies and a cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to elevate expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance delves into the intricate interplay between jazz music and popular dance over the past century. Author Christi Jay Wells explores how popular entertainment and the cultures of social dancing played a pivotal role in the formation and evolution of jazz music, despite its reputation as a legitimate art form better suited for seated listening.
Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book examines the relationships between amateur and professional jazz dancers and jazz musicians, as the soundscapes and choreoscapes of jazz were shaped through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music purportedly distanced itself from dancing bodies.
Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, the book advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broader cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to elevate expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.
Weight: 328g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197559284
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