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ContributorsBerry, John (Performer) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1987-10-12
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Wendholt, Scott (Performer) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2005-03-29
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Pilafian, Sam (Performer) / Jazz Bones (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2002-11-25
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / New Music Jazz Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2002-11-26
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Moio, Dom (Performer) / Jazz Trombone Ensemble (Performer) / Dom Moio Jazz Combo (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-11-28
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Pilafian, Sam (Performer) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-04-27
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Shellans, Mike (Performer) / Jazz Bones (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-04-19
Description
William “Count” Basie (1904-1984) is one of the most beloved and imitated figures in American music. His name has long been ubiquitous among jazz scholars, critics, and practitioners. Basie’s sparse, minimalistic piano idiolect is immediately recognizable, and the 4/4 swing aesthetic of his Kansas City-born jazz orchestra is a cornerstone of the big band idiom. “Stories and Significations” critically examines prevailing narratives about Basie’s biography and musical output, many of which have not been substantively reconsidered since the 1980s. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis of methods ranging from Afrodiasporic modes of musical analysis, archival research, critical historiography, and African American literary theory, this project serves to enrich Basie’s legacy while also critiquing the mythology surrounding it. By signifying on the traditional “Life and Music” paradigm of jazz biography, in “Stories and Significations” I use preexisting scholarly and critical discourses as points of departure for critique while also offering scholars and practitioners new ways to write, talk, and think about Basie. In doing so, I bring Basie, the stories of his life, and the Significations in his music into the rich scholarly discourse of the New Jazz Studies that has added such valuable depth and detail to the legacies of numerous other figures in jazz history such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis.
ContributorsDavis, Jayson Owen (Author) / Wells, Christi J (Thesis advisor) / Kocour, Michael (Committee member) / Saucier, Catherine (Committee member) / Schmelz, Peter (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
ContributorsBerry, John (Performer) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1986-04-07
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2006-10-24