Soul, Afrofuturism & the Timeliness of Contemporary Jazz Fusions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Solis (0000-0002-7667-201X, Centralne Laboratorium Kryminalistyczne Policji, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 23-35 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01740 |
| OpenAlex | W2924852928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The rise of jazz-R&B-hip hop fusions in contemporary Los Angeles offers an opportunity to reflect on the ways jazz matters to black audiences today. Drawing on recent Afrofuturist art and theory as well as on Amiri Baraka's analysis of the “changing same” in black music, this essay traces out the significance of work by artists as diverse as Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and Robert Glasper, positing that their music tells us that jazz matters not only in itself, but also in its continuing capacity to engage in cross-genre dialogues for musicians and audiences who hear it as part of a rich continuum of African American musical expression
Aesthetics · Art · Call and response · Concert dance · Dance · Expression (computer science · Jazz · Jazz dance · Literature · Music history · Musical · Sociology · Soul · Theology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Music History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |