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Maud Cuney Hare (1874-1936) was a biographer, playwright, and musician, but it is her work as a musicologist that is perhaps most valuable today. Negro Musicians and Their Music, published shortly before Hare's death, is one of the first detailed histories of African, Anglo-African, and African-American contributions to world music and offers profiles of a host of black composers and artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Edgar Lavoie
reviewed Negro musicians and their music on November 15, 2011
Negro musicians and their music
OK, so there was some useful information in this book. It was just hard to get at. The issue with the book, for me, is that the title is misleading. This book is not primarily about John Coltrane. Rather, it is primarily about Kofsky's thesis that what happened to jazz in the 60s, with the "New Thing", and "Free Jazz", was a direct result of the African American community's struggle for justice, and that jazz in general was a music that grew out of oppression.
Not that there is not truth in this statement. However, Kofsky takes it too far. While reading the music, jazz as pure creativity starts to recede into the background, and jazz as socio-revolutionary tool ascends to a point that is probably not warranted.
That said, there are some great interviews with Trane, Elvin Jones, and McCoy Tyner. That, alone, makes it worth cracking the book open. If you have an intrepid streak, you can also pick up interesting and useful nuggets nested deeply here and there in Kofsky's continual drone of Marxist ideals that filters all the jazz he hears.
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