{"product_id":"free-jazz-black-power","title":"Free Jazz\/Black Power","description":"In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote \u003ci\u003eFree Jazz\/Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of Black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown. The authors reached radical conclusions--free jazz was a revolutionary reaction against white domination, was the musical counterpart to the Black Power movement, and was a musical style that demanded a similar political commitment. The impact of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African American music. In some cases, it changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. \u003ci\u003eFree Jazz\/Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e remains indispensable to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and realigned that zeitgeist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Carles\u003c\/b\u003e (1941-2023) was editor-in-chief at \u003ci\u003eJazz Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e from 1971 until 2006. He coauthored several books on jazz, including \u003ci\u003eDictionnaire du jazz\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJean-Louis Comolli \u003c\/b\u003e(1941-2022) taught at Universit? Paris-VIII, FEMIS, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He was a film critic, screenwriter, film director, and jazz author. \u003cb\u003eGr?gory Pierrot\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, president of the Amiri Baraka Society, and cohost (with Bhakti Shringarpure) of the webinar series \u003ci\u003eDecolonize That!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50926245806354,"sku":"9781496807793","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_744545e1-3ad7-4cae-8e2a-98909b032eae.jpg?v=1738980331","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/free-jazz-black-power","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}