When genres collide : Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the struggle between jazz and rock

Summary: 'When Genres Collide' is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock ǹ' roll "is the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt." So why did jazz and rock subsequently become treated as separate genres? The rift between jazz and rock (and jazz and rock scholarship) is based on a set of received assumptions about their fundamental differences, but there are other ways popular music history could have been written. By offering a fresh examination of key historical moments when the trajectories and meanings of jazz and rock intersected, overlapped, or collided, it reveals how music critics constructed an ideological divide between jazz and rock that would be replicated in American musical discourse for decades to follow. Recipient of and Honorable Mention in the PROSE Award, Music & the Performing Arts 2018.

Record details

ISBN: 1501319027
ISBN: 9781501319020
ISBN: 1501326147
ISBN: 9781501326141
ISBN: 1501319043
ISBN: 9781501319044
ISBN: 0275998274
ISBN: 9780275998271
ISBN: 1501319035
ISBN: 9781501319037
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Raucous Jazz (Rock Is Jazz?); 1 Jazz Culture as a Precursor to Rock 'n' Roll Culture; 2 The Dismissal of Rock 'n' Roll by Jazz Critics at Down Beat; 3 The American Jazz Press Covers Rock; 4 The Birth of Rolling Stone; 5 Newport 1969 and the Uneasy Coupling of Jazz and Rock.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).