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Free jazz and African American identity

Norberto Cambiasso

To some extent could narrate the origins of free jazz through a curious dialectic between affirmation and negativity. Early attempts to leave any predetermined structure, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz in 1949 with Charles Mingus and Teo Macero Mal Waldron in 1954, Cecil Taylor and Steve Lacy in 1955, George Russell and Bill Evans in 1956, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry in 1959, Eric Dolphy in 1960 - inequalities reflecting surprise that the time is labeled temporary exorcise-free form, abstract music - and adjectives insufficient, atonal, dissonant, weird.

Almost without exception, early improvisation reveals a mostly acoustic perseverance, widespread resistance to technology. Point attest to the chagrin of Cecil Taylor for electronic music, the spirituality of John Coltrane revived from A Love Supreme or the recovery of traditional forms such as gospel in Albert Ayler. Even the electronic innovations pioneered on keyboards Sun Ra, the moog, the clavioline, the effects of tape-generated dislocation subtle about the African polyrhythms and Middle Eastern modalities of the rest of his Arkestra.

The environment of the 50 that warranted suspicion. The threat of the Cold War , nuclear escalation and the establishment of a consumer society that excluded African Americans from the economic banquet with the same force with which they retracted their civil rights were sufficient, by itself, so that their perceptions differ from optimism conformist that characterized the middle-class white majority.

a repressive structure that gradually tended to identify with their immediate environment. A feeling of alienation to the incipient commodification and media propaganda, promoting the realization of the American dream on every purchase of an appliance or a new TV.

cultural hierarchies exclusivistas y excluyentes que oponían el modernismo de un pretendido arte alto al ámbito más prosaico –aunque también más festivo- de la mass culture tenían sin cuidado a quienes se veían obligados a sobrevivir en los márgenes, aquellos a los que la fiesta interminable del crecimiento económico y el consumo a ultranza había olvidado girarles una invitación.

No se trata de repetir aquí las conocidas historias de pobreza extrema en los inicios de Anthony Braxton o el Revolutionary Ensemble, la desafección que traslucen las muertes prematuras de Coltrane o Ayler, esa repugnancia de los clubes nocturnos de Chicago ante cualquier forma de jazz, lo que llevaría a the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

There's something else that escapes beyond the anecdotal and personal circumstances. On the one hand, an ethics statement Woo-Myth absolute beginning to complete the unfulfilled promises of jazz from overcoming their language-to be confused with the Absolute itself, the promise of liberation that brings a new world -. On the other hand, a rejection of the recent past for another distant and mythologized, the African and non-Western communities. In the conjunction of these two extremes apparently irreconcilable is the strength of free jazz: the utopia of freedom and nostalgia for what was lost, the materiality of the instrument and the spiritual invocation, the defiant expression of a specific identity and its universal vocation. Contradictory tensions, under different social and historical situation, determine the status of improvisation in the decades ahead and promote the reaction of certain current trends insidious.

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