scholarly journals Sonic Grounding and Internalizing Structure: Themes of Continuity in the Music of John Coltrane

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Jason Squinobal
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Late Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Thelonious Monk ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Recording Artist ◽  
Opening Paragraph

(Opening paragraph): Examining the musical development of John Coltrane, one often gets a deep sense of change. Respected Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter characterizes Coltrane’s career by the “fact that he was constantly developing and changing.” To account for this perception of change, the tendency is to divide Coltrane's music into segmented stylistic periods. This allows us a greater understanding of Coltrane’s developmental building blocks, and the specific elements that he focused on while creating his music. For example, Eric Nisenson divides Coltrane’s work into “Early Coltrane” including his work with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and his first recordings for Atlantic, a “Middle Period” including his work with Thelonious Monk and the early Impulse recordings, and finally a “Late Period” including Coltrane’s avant-garde albums.  In The Dawn of Indian Music in the West Peter Lavezzoli states “Coltrane’s music went through more evolutionary stages during his ten years as a solo recording artist than many musicians realize in a fuller lifetime.” Historical and bibliographical references including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians also characterized Coltrane’s development as moving from one period to the next.

The History of Jazz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Gioia
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Thelonious Monk ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charlie Parker

The History of Jazz, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive survey of jazz music from its origins until the current day. The book is designed for general readers and students, as well as those with more specialized interest in jazz and music history. It provides detailed biographical information and an overview of the musical contributions of the key innovators in development of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and others. The book also traces the evolution of jazz styles and includes in-depth accounts of ragtime, blues, New Orleans jazz, Chicago jazz, swing and big band music, bebop, hard bop, cool jazz, avant-garde, jazz-rock fusion, and other subgenres and developments. The volume also provides a cultural and socioeconomic contextualization of the music, dealing with the broader political and social environment that gave birth to the music and shaped its development—both in the United States and within a global setting.

The Fragmentation of Jazz Styles

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-400
Author(s):  
Ted Gioia
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
West Coast ◽  
World War ◽  
Third Stream ◽  
Thelonious Monk ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Modal Jazz ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Experimental Approaches

In the post–World War II years, jazz started to split off into many different directions, spurring a fragmentation that expanded the creative range of the idiom but caused long-lasting divisions among artists and fans (the so-called jazz wars). The first fault lines emerged between traditional and modern jazz exponents, but during the 1950s and early 1960s, many different styles emerged—including cool jazz, hard bop, soul jazz, West Coast jazz, modal jazz, Third Stream jazz, and various experimental approaches. This chapter traces these stylistic developments, and their leading exponents. It looks at the life and work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, and Bill Evans, among other major jazz stars of the era, and assesses key albums such as Kind of Blue, Mingus Ah Um, and Giant Steps.

scholarly journals The Form of Life of Sanctity in Music Beyond Hagiography: The Case of John Coltrane and His “Ascension”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Marino
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Free Jazz ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
Official Recognition

AbstractThe paper investigates the cultural unit of “sanctity” in the light of the notion of “form of life”, in order to show how jazz master John Coltrane (1926–1967) pursued sanctity as a regulative model with regards both to personhood and musicianship, so as to translate his existential quest into music. Firstly, the paper briefly summarizes: what we mean today by sanctity (focusing on Catholicism and distinguishing between a traditional view and a contemporary, post-Conciliar one); what are the relationships interweaving music and sanctity (the latter mainly providing the former with imagery and narrative—e.g. hagiographic—model); what we mean by form of life—a notion (Lebensform) brought into philosophical discourse by Ludwig Wittgenstein—in semiotic terms (Jacques Fontanille) and why we can apply it to sanctity. Afterwards, the paper addresses Coltrane’s musical career, relying both on hagiographic discourse built around him (e.g. John Scheinfeld’s documentary Chasing Trane, 2016) and his discography, with special focus on three game-changers among his albums: Giant Steps (1960), A Love Supreme (1965), and Ascension (1967, published posthumously). Coltrane headed a twofold conversion: he abandoned his native Methodist faith to embrace a personal form of syncretic pantheism; he abandoned the language of traditional jazz to embrace the avant-garde technique of modal composition (in the line of George Russell, Bill Evans, Miles Davis) and the once despised free jazz (Ornette Coleman). Not only Coltrane wanted to be a saint, not only was he regarded as such to the extent that a “St. John William Coltrane Church” was established in San Francisco (by 1969, with official recognition in 1982), but he tried to be one through music; namely, by conveying his spiritual journey via sonic means: proposing a musical catechism (Giant Steps), a musical mass (A Love Supreme), and his own mystique (Ascension). Consistently with the process of selection any saintly figure—and mystiques especially—undergoes in order to be canonized stricto sensu, only some tokens within Coltrane’s body of work were included in the canon (both of the musical and religious kind), while his later works were left out due to their radicalism.

Monk, Thelonious (1917–1982)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garlitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Band ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Thelonious Monk ◽  
John Coltrane ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Modern Jazz ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Charlie Parker ◽  
52Nd Street

Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. One of the earliest performers in the bebop movement of modern jazz dating from the mid-twentieth century, namely the 1940s in New York City, Monk performed original compositions in neighborhoods there such as Harlem and Greenwich Village, as well as the thriving 52nd Street district of jazz nightclubs. The pianist performed with other leading figures in modern jazz including bebop progenitors Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and avant-garde saxophonist John Coltrane, all of whom performed and recorded Monk’s compositions. Monk’s compositions are some of the most commonly performed jazz standards today. Giddins and DeVeaux (2009) argue that Monk’s compositions are the second most frequently performed standards written by any one composer in jazz today, after those of pianist and big-band leader Duke Ellington.

scholarly journals Christfried Jakob on the cerebral cortex

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ζωή Θεοδωρίδου
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Educational Neuroscience ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
Scientific Fields

The present dissertation examines the culmination of Christfried‟s Jakob neurobiological, neurophilosophical and neuroeducational ideas from 1890 to 1949. His work numbers 30 books and 200 articles on developmental, evolutionary, anatomical and pathological issues in neurobiology and it further includes pioneering contributions in modern scientific fields such as educational neuroscience and neurophilosophy. We have divided Jakob‟s work into three periods. During the „early‟ period (1890–1912), Jakob mostly carried out anatomical work. In his „middle period‟ (1913–1935), he elaborated psychobiological ideas. In the „late‟ period (1936–1949), he came up with synthetic neurobiological and neurophilosophical theories. His works were written in German and Spanish and a couple of papers in French. Thus, they had scarce diffusion in the English literature. Given that Jakob‟s works still provide meaningful clues on the riddle of the human brain, an objective of this study was to render his legacy accessible by a wider audience. Accordingly, an aim of my dissertation consisted in crediting Jakob for the formulation of original ideas in evolutionary, behavioral, cognitive, affective and educational neuroscience as well as in neurophilosophy. In a broad framework, I retraced the evolution of Jakob‟s avant garde thought and bridged his still timely works with the modern literature.

Kazuo Ohno's World from Without and Within. By Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno. Translated by John Barrett. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004; pp. 344. $34.95 paper.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-317
Author(s):  
Kurt Wurmli
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Inside View ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata are recognized as the most influential creators of the contemporary Japanese dance form known today as butoh. Since its wild and avant-garde beginnings in the late 1950s, butoh has evolved into an established and appreciated art form throughout the world. Despite its popularity and strong influences on the international modern dance world, butoh only recently became an accepted subject for academic research in Japan as well as in the West. With the new opening of butoh research centers and archives—such as the Ohno Dance Studio Archives at BANK ART 1929 in Yokohama, the Kazuo Ohno Archives at Bologna University in Italy, and the Hijikata Tatsumi Archives at Keio University in Tokyo—serious scholarly attention has been given to the art of butoh's founders. However, the lack of firsthand sources by butoh artists reflecting their own work still poses great limitations for a deep understanding of the art form. Kazuo Ohno's World from Without and Within is not only the first full-length book in English about the master's life and work, but also offers a rare inside view of butoh.

scholarly journals Research on Contemporary “Chinese Theme” Fashion Design based on Aesthetic Distance Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Yuru Ma ◽  
Xiangyang Bian
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Clothing Design ◽  
Aesthetic Distance ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Chinese theme or style has a long history in international fashion design; it is a common theme for Chinese and western designers to pursue Oriental sentiment and express Oriental aesthetics. However, for contemporary Chinese theme fashion design, Chinese and western designers have different understanding and interpretation, and there are many differences in design techniques and effects. In this paper, we propose to research on contemporary Chinese theme fashion design based on the theory of aesthetic distance, and interpret the essence of Chinese theme fashion design from different aesthetic distances. In addition, the basic principles of contemporary Chinese theme clothing design are summarized through the analysis and comparison of Chinese and western design cases. The results show that Chinese theme design, to the West, represents “the other” and “exotic theme” in a modern way; while in the eyes of Chinese people, it is a contemporary embodiment of “retro theme”. The clothing design in modern Chinese fashion should, based on the design elements collected in an expansive and deep way, pursue the balance and integration of “conservative” and “avant-garde” elements and the harmony of “form” and “spirit”, abiding by the fundamental principle of “absorbing tradition” to “create the present”.

Some Comments on Land Tenure in Egba Division, Western Nigeria

Africa ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akin L. Mabogunje
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
The West ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphDuring the sitting of the West African Lands Committee in 1912, the witnesses who were called before the Committee from Egba Division emphatically stated that sales of both farm and town lands had been going on in Egbaland for some considerable time and had become accepted as normal. Equally significant was the vigour with which witnesses from all the other Yoruba sub-tribes countered the suggestion that sale of land existed or was permitted by the traditional land law and custom. H. L. Ward Price in his report also pointed out that sales of land had been going on in Egbaland for at least sixty years before he was writing in the 1930's. From the evidence he collected, it would seem that land sales dated back to between 1860 and 1880.

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