A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music Review

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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music ReviewWow.
Lewis has done a ton and a half of research. He writes like a dream (with the very occasional exception of some congealed jargon from the humanities). And his analysis is hugely intelligent: you can actually see how some of the most important musical innovations of the twentieth century emerged from a social network. (Yes, sure, the network was chock full of really talented musicians. But it doesn't look as though any one of them could have pulled off these musical breakthoughs alone.) And you see how race and racism have structured the production and reception of music -- not with handwaving slogans, but with the patient analysis of richly detailed history.
So many books about "jazz" -- and I guarantee that if you read this, you'll have to think hard about what counts as "jazz," what as "art music" or "serious music" or "new music" or just plain "music," and why -- are breathless and kinda dumb. This one is emphatically the opposite. It's a fat book, and still it's a delight to read. I put it down wanting more.
George Lewis is of course himself an AACM member and an astonishingly talented trombonist. He does a lovely job inserting himself into the text when he belongs there, with neither ritual self-deprecation nor arrogant boasting.
If you're curious about Lewis's music, I'd start with his work with Anthony Braxton (track down Dortmund '76, a quartet with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul: boy it would be nice to see a reunion of those guys, *not* to do retreads on their amazing work from the '70s, but to explore where they are now musically), John Lindberg's Give and Take, the Black Saint dates under his own name, and, also under his own name, Voyager, with Roscoe Mitchell and a computer Lewis programmed to interact with the musicians.
The guy is a superb author and a superb musician. Wow.
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