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'A Bunch of Riffs': Language, Post-Modernity, and the Politics of Inclusion in Improvised Music.

Jazz improvisation is as dependent on the use of pre-existing riffs as it is on extemporaneous creation. These riffs create, establish, and reference genres, and provide an extra-temporal aspect to the moment of performance. The re-appropriation of these musical fragments transforms their meaning an...

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Published in:Contemporary Music Review Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 463 - 476
Main Author: Eisenberg, Wendy
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2019
Subjects:
Language & languages
Practical politics
Jazz
Concord
Music improvisation
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