Pub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4845
Asher Tobin Chodos
For jazz musicians who came of age in the 1990s, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is a cultural touchstone as contested as the D.A.R.E. program or the Parental Advisory stickers that started appearing on album covers in the mid-1980s. As young jazz musicians grappling with the exacting pedagogy of the JALC organization, many of us sensed that there may have been something ideological behind its rigid dogmas, its conspicuous Brooks Brothers endorsement, its fancy dedicated building in midtown Manhattan, and—above all—its categorical rejection of some of the music we loved best. The polish and superhuman virtuosity of the JALC coterie simultaneously awed us, inspired us, and somehow rubbed us the wrong way. Dale Chapman’s book is a serious and probing attempt to subject that intuition to scholarly scrutiny. It asks, in other words, whether the neotraditionalism that took such hold of the jazz world in the 1990s really was “jazz for the Reagan revolution,” as David Hajdu notoriously characterized it in 2003. Readers already suspicious of the politics of neoclassical jazz will find some corroboration here, but Chapman’s more profound contribution is to remind us that the study of aesthetics can be of real value for the humanities more broadly.
对于20世纪90年代成年的爵士音乐家来说，林肯中心的爵士乐(jazz at Lincoln Center，简称JALC)是一种文化试金石，就像D.A.R.E.项目或20世纪80年代中期开始出现在专辑封面上的“家长咨询”(Parental Advisory)贴纸一样备受争议。当年轻的爵士音乐家们努力与jjalc组织严格的教学方法作斗争时，我们中的许多人都感觉到，在它严格的教条背后，在它引人注目的布鲁克斯兄弟(Brooks Brothers)的认可背后，在它位于曼哈顿中城的华丽的专门建筑背后，最重要的是，在它对我们最喜欢的一些音乐的断然拒绝背后，可能有某种意识形态的东西。JALC小圈子的精湛技艺和超人般的精湛技艺同时让我们感到敬畏，给我们带来灵感，但不知怎的，也让我们产生了误解。戴尔·查普曼(Dale Chapman)的书是一次严肃而深入的尝试，试图将这种直觉置于学术审查之下。换句话说，书中提出的问题是，20世纪90年代在爵士乐世界占据如此大地位的新传统主义，是否真的像大卫·哈吉杜(David Hajdu)在2003年臭名昭著地描述的那样，是“里根革命的爵士乐”。已经对新古典爵士乐的政治持怀疑态度的读者会在这里找到一些佐证，但查普曼更深刻的贡献是提醒我们，美学研究可以对更广泛的人文学科具有真正的价值。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.4261
Dan DiPiero
This article hazards a definition of improvisation as a "contingent encounter," not in order to settle definitional debates, but in order to productively re-evaluate questions around improvisation as an aesthetic and socio-political force. Here, I argue that thinking improvisation through contingency highlights several key characteristics while leaving behind a set of problematic assumptions that often accompanies thinking improvisation in social spaces. First, I outline these characteristics, establishing what it might mean to bring contingency to bear on a musical performance. Subsequently, I compare two instances of "transatlantic improvised music": Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch," and "Waves, Linens, and White Light" by contemporary free improvisers, Mr. K. I conclude by sketching some of the implications of taking this experimental definition seriously, arguing that it re-orients improvisation away from a rarefied behavior and more towards a potentiality hidden inside each moment.
本文将即兴创作定义为“偶然相遇”，不是为了解决定义上的争论，而是为了富有成效地重新评估即兴创作作为一种美学和社会政治力量的问题。在这里，我认为，通过偶然性来思考即兴创作突出了几个关键特征，同时留下了一系列有问题的假设，这些假设通常伴随着社会空间中的即兴创作。首先，我概述了这些特征，确定将偶然性带到音乐表演中可能意味着什么。随后，我比较了“跨大西洋即兴音乐”的两个例子:埃里克·道菲(Eric Dolphy)的《出去吃午饭》(Out to Lunch)和当代自由即兴乐手k先生的《海浪、亚麻布和白光》(Waves, Linens, and White Light)。最后，我概述了认真对待这一实验性定义的一些含义，认为它重新定位了即兴演奏的方向，使其不再是一种稀有的行为，而是更倾向于隐藏在每个时刻的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.21083/CSIECI.V12I2.3560
Neelamjit Dhillon
This paper highlights the positive role that improvisation can have in addressing trauma, and the utililization of improvisation within music therapy and creative music practice. After a brief overview of these topics, the musical piece Wisconsin is examined. Practical insights are gained into the use of improvisation as an effective tool to address and alleviate trauma within the Sikh community. Improvisation can serve as a powerful device to speak to trauma, uncover unconscious experiences, and move towards healing.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6507
Rinaldo Walcott
Rinaldo Walcott discusses the intersections between the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality in this contribution to the special issue.
里纳尔多·沃尔科特在本期特刊中讨论了COVID-19大流行与警察暴行之间的交集。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6308
Olivia Shortt
Olivia Shortt's contribution for the COVID-19 Special Issue.
奥利维亚·肖特对COVID-19特刊的贡献。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6419
Nathan A. Moore
The paper relates my experience as an improvising musician responding to COVID. In particular, the practice of recording solo improvisations that are then sent to colleagues for them to overdub an improvised response (and vice versa).
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