Brian Harker
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Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark
Dear Editor of College Music Symposium: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reply to Brian Harker's article: "In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley" (CMS 48, pp. 157-159), which referred to my article in the previous...
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Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History
John Coltrane’s recorded improvisations in light of accounts of his concurrent ill health, as in this passage from Brian Harker’s introductory textbook Jazz: An American Journey. On page 271, Harker writes, “Unfortunately, his addiction to heroin and...
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Letter to the Editor from Harker, Brian
As I read Mark Gridley's lengthy response to my response ("In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley," CMS 48) to his article "Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement" (CMS 47), it occurred to me that...
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Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement
Free Jazz from Social History This student is not the only person who had been led to this assumption. For instance, in Brian Harker's recent jazz history textbook, Jazz: An American Journey, the author had written, "As the civil rights movement...
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In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley
I think so. And in any case, I think showing students that jazz did not evolve in a vacuum is worth the risk. authors: Brian Harker author_ids: 174 authors: Brian Harker author_ids: 174
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New Orleans. This has been important in making a case for continuity between African traditions and jazz. For instance, Brian Harker's Jazz: An American Journey states, "The weekly performance rituals at Congo Square lasted through the Civil War, and...
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