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Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago

University of Chicago Printing, 2017
Paper: 978-0-226-41809-four | Cloth: 978-0-226-37596-0 | eISBN: 978-0-226-37601-i
Library of Congress Classification ML28.C4A774 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 784.4165

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ABOUT THIS Book

This year marks the golden ceremony of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique operation practices—members played hundreds of instruments on phase, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab coats, and traditional African and Asian dress. The group, which congenital a global audience and toured across six continents, presented their work as experimental performance art, in opposition to the jazz industry's traditionalist aesthetics.

In Message to Our Folks, Paul Steinbeck combines musical analysis and historical inquiry to give usa the definitive study of the Art Ensemble. In the book, he proposes a new theory of group improvisation that explains how the band members were able to improvise together in and so many different styles while besides drawing on an all-encompassing repertoire of notated compositions. Steinbeck examines the multimedia dimensions of the Fine art Ensemble'due south performances and the means in which their distinctive model of social relations kept the group performing together for four decades. Message to Our Folks is a striking and valuable contribution to our understanding of one of the earth's premier musical groups.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Paul Steinbeck is assistant professor of music theory at Washington University in St. Louis. He is coauthor of Exercises for the Creative Musician, likewise as a bassist, composer, and recording artist.

REVIEWS

"Steinbeck's Bulletin To Our Folks is the beginning book-length study of the Fine art Ensemble of Chicago. The author has produced an absorbing and highly original business relationship of the group's origins on the Southside of Chicago, the social and political implications of their movement to Paris in 1969, and their subsequent render to the The states in 1971, along with innovative musicological analyses of the grouping's most influential compositions and recordings. Past taking the states into the inner life of the Ensemble, Steinbeck eloquently demonstrates the ways in which the group's lifelong engagement with multiple African-American, advanced, non-Western, and pop musical traditions was manifested in their unique sound, as well as explaining how and why they gained such a large and diverse following among audiences throughout the world. This is an important addition to jazz scholarship."

— Nicholas Gebhardt, author of Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Credo

"Message to Our Folks is a stiff, interesting, thoroughly-researched, and beautifully written study of a pivotal group in jazz history—The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Combining narrative history and extended analysis of exemplary work by the group, the book is sure to find a significant audition amongst jazz scholars and the band'southward broad, international fan base."

— Gabriel Solis, author of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Steinbeck for Message to Our Folks. This volume is more than we could have hoped for, telling the consummate history of the Art Ensemble of Chicago in careful, engaging particular."

— Roscoe Mitchell, founder, Art Ensemble of Chicago

"Steinbeck has produced a major contribution to both music theory and the burgeoning field of critical improvisation studies, showing academic and lay readers akin how these boundary-shattering African-American artists realized their ambitious dreams, not merely in sound, but through alternative communities of affect and agency that transformed experimentalism itself."

— George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

"This is a crucial work of scholarship, one that's been a long time coming. The Art Ensemble of Chicago were a once in a lifetime phenomenon; a book this passionate and informed is the least they've earned."

— The Wire

"The volume contains a wealth of data and original interviews. Information technology is a very easy read, well written and articulate throughout. . . . The chapters dedicated to musical analyses are lush with detail. Through transcriptions, diagrams, and highly detailed writing, Steinbeck conveys the depth and creativity that goes into each Art Ensemble performance. The illustrations in these capacity are all-encompassing. These three chapters lone are worth the price of the book. . . . An essential read for anyone interested in the Art Ensemble of Chicago or creative music."

— Free Jazz Commonage

"Message to Our Folks calls attention to just how staggering an achievement the Fine art Ensemble of Chicago accomplished."

— PopMatters

"A thorough, learned, still consistently readable account of one of the most long-lived and successful bands in the music. Mixing a wealth of biographical detail and an entertaining history of the band's rise to international fame with close musical analysis of three key recordings,Message to Our Folks perfectly captures the ring'southward unique ethos by examining its roots in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians; its experimentation with multi-media performance fine art; its travels around the world, near chiefly to 1970s Paris simply afterwards to places such as Nigeria, Jamaica and Japan; its theory of grouping improvisation; and its pioneering arroyo to social relations. In short, this is a model study of ane of the nearly influential bands in creative music."

— London Jazz News

"A much-needed await at the genius of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago—ane of the coolest, most compelling groups to emerge in the great wave of avant jazz in the tardily 60s—and one who continued to give the world a lifetime legacy of groundbreaking music! There'southward been enough written on the group over the years, simply author Paul Steinbeck really takes things further—by bringing his own musicological training to play with the performances of the grouping—expanding our understanding of their sounds with rich estimation of key moments—balanced out nicely by a fuller history of the group and its individual members—and their importance both on the American and global jazz scenes during the 60s, 70s, and 80s."

— Dusty Groove

"A fine and minutely researched history. . . . It's more than than just a standard biography. Steinbeck—a bassist, composer, and professor of music—also devotes several chapters to microscopically detailed, moment-past-moment analysis of cardinal recordings, including 1969'south A Jackson In Your House and Live at Mandel Hall, recorded in 1972. Here, his painstaking and innovative musical transcriptions reveal both the complication of the Ensemble's compositions and the astonishing, spontaneous group-recall that fabricated their improvisations and then thrilling."

— Jazzwise

"Message to Our Folks, Steinbeck'south new history of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the collective'south flagship ring, vividly illustrates the AACM's cadre value of interdependent artistic practice. The Art Ensemble was a model of the AACM'southward musical, cultural, and economical philosophy, and in the course of its career became 1 of the longest-lived and about celebrated experimental music groups in history. In this offset comprehensive work on the Fine art Ensemble, Steinbeck evokes the adventurousness, range of expression, and sheer verve of these v virtuosos who, clad in African body paint, shamanistic garb, professorial jackets, and white lab coats, circled the globe playing—according to their motto—'Great Blackness Music, Ancient to the Future.'"

— Southward Side Weekly

"Illuminating. . . . Steinbeck'southward Bulletin to Our Folks demonstrates how well the band succeeded on their own terms. They fabricated merely the uncompromising music they wanted to, and they made information technology pay."

— Kevin Whitehead, Fresh Air

"An absolutely engrossing entry-level read about a group that is nevertheless timely in the way that, say, Lester Bowie namesake David Bowie is—visually, thematically, sonically—and always deserving of another await."

— Orlando Weekly

"An first-class work that deepens our our agreement of a unique and outstanding grouping of musicians. . .A well-researched, detailed study."

— Jazz & Culture

"Because the music and, almost importantly, the commonage politics and practices of the AACM, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and the Black Artists Group are so ludicrously under-studied, Steinbeck'southward contribution remains invaluable."

— Black Critical and Cultural Theory

"Paul Steinbeck's fine new biography of the ring is a scholarly, forensic written report. . . .  A fairly brief, fairly serious but highly constructive biography, a must for general fans."

— Moving the River

"Message to Our Folks is an of import volume that expands our understanding of the musical practices and history of 1 of the leading experimental music groups of the terminal half of the twentieth century. A major highlight of this book is Steinbeck's musical analyses and the means he connects the music to the book's wider themes of the Art Ensemble'south social practices. Steinbeck bolsters this with the use of principal sources drawn from the personal archives of the Fine art Ensemble alongside interviews with and personal insights from the Fine art Ensemble. Steinbeck'southward integration of these sources into his book supply an boosted layer of nuance and tin can be viewed every bit part of the recent plough toward the archive in jazz studies. Steinbeck's piece of work also demonstrates the value of a unmarried-subject field monograph, peculiarly on artists whose polyvalent musical and social practices cannot exist contained within specific critical theories or methodologies. Overall, Message to Our Folks will be of involvement to general music audiences and interdisciplinary scholars of music, sound, operation, improvisation, and composition."

— Journal of the Society for American Music

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The South Side Scene
2 Two Art Ensembles
3 The Art Ensemble of Paris
4 A Jackson in Your House
5 On the Road
6 Free Together
7 Live at Mandel Hall
8 Neat Black Music
9 Live from the Jazz Showcase
Conclusion

Notes

References

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