作者：RobertR.Faulkner/HowardS.Becker
出版社：UniversityOfChicagoPress
副标题：TheJazzRepertoireinAction
出版年：2009-9-15
页数：232
定价：USD26.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780226239217
内容简介
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Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the subtle craft of playing the jazz repertoire is tested in front of a live audience. These ordinary musicians may never have played together—they may never have met—so how do they smoothly put on a show without getting booed offstage.
In “Do You Know . . . ?” Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker—both jazz musicians with decades of experience performing—present the view from the bandstand, revealing the array of skills necessary for working musicians to do their jobs. While learning songs from sheet music or by ear helps, the jobbing musician’s lexicon is dauntingly massive: hundreds of thousands of tunes from jazz classics and pop standards to more exotic fare. Since it is impossible for anyone to memorize all of these songs, Faulkner and Becker show that musicians collectively negotiate and improvise their way to a successful performance. Players must explore each others’ areas of expertise, develop an ability to fake their way through unfamiliar territory, and respond to the unpredictable demands of their audience—whether an unexpected gang of polka fanatics or a tipsy father of the bride with an obscure favorite song.
“Do You Know . . . ?” dishes out entertaining stories and sharp insights drawn from the authors’ own experiences and observations as well as interviews with a range of musicians. Faulkner and Becker’s vivid, detailed portrait of the musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on the spot or under a spotlight.
作者简介
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Robert R. Faulkner is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts and the author of Hollywood Studio Musicians and Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry.
Howard S. Becker has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lives and works in San Francisco and Paris.
目录
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Preface
1 How Musicians Make Music Together
2 Repertoire as Activity: The Basic Elements
3 Learning Songs and Building an Individual Repertoire: Sources
4 The Skills You Need to Play the Contents of the Song Reservoir
5 Things Change: The Organization of Musical Life
6 Things Change: The Music
7 On the Stand: Putting Repertoire to Work
8 The Results of Bandstand Dynamics
9 Playing the Repertoire Game: What We Wanted to Know and How We Learned to Ask a Better Question
Appendix: How We Did the Research
References
Index
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一些可能互不相识，从未一起演奏过的音乐家却能聚在一起（酒吧里，婚礼上等）完成一场演出，这是如何发生的？本书以此为切入口，研究了爵士乐的“常备曲目”。既有细致入微的经验描述，也有在此基础上的理论升华，尤其是“常备曲目”一词，更被作者放在米德和布鲁默的社会学传统中，反对文化的决定观。
大佬如何骂大佬？1928年出生的社会学家、从15岁就给酒吧和脱衣舞俱乐部弹钢琴的Howard Becker（现在还有几位这个年头还在高产的社会学家！）和他的合作者（也是小号手）Robert R. Faulkner，合写了这本研究爵士乐演奏的社会学专著：为什么大家都事先不认识没排练但还是能即兴在一起演出？这看上去很不合乎社会学的一般理论。这本书是在芝加哥大学出版社出版的（2009）。
但是，他们几…
非常棒，信手拈来的一本书。两位作者都是爵士乐手/社会学家。对于各种演奏技巧、业内术语以及爵士乐的历史都很熟稔。理论上没有特别花哨的地方，也没抽象出新的层次（『即兴爵士演奏是一种共同知识的创造过程』）。但就是一种油然而生的生活感，从50年代的芝加哥工人酒吧，到2000年的新英格兰音乐餐馆。浸润了音乐的一本书。本书还有一本『配套』的作者对话录，等通过添加审核后贴一下。此外，推荐各位在黑夜里听一下Che…
大佬如何骂大佬？1928年出生的社会学家、从15岁就给酒吧和脱衣舞俱乐部弹钢琴的Howard Becker（现在还有几位这个年头还在高产的社会学家！）和他的合作者（也是小号手）Robert R. Faulkner，合写了这本研究爵士乐演奏的社会学专著：为什么大家都事先不认识没排练但还是能即兴在一起演出？这看上去很不合乎社会学的一般理论。这本书是在芝加哥大学出版社出版的（2009）。
但是，他们几…
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