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Interpreting Hard Bop
| Title: | Interpreting Hard Bop: Topics, Narrative, and Subjectivity. |
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| Name(s): |
Thompson, Daniel J., author Jones, Evan Allan, professor directing dissertation Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-, university representative Kraus, Joseph Charles, 1955-, committee member Clendinning, Jane Piper, committee member Florida State University, degree granting institution College of Music, degree granting college |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: |
Text Doctoral Thesis |
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| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2017 | |
| Publisher: | Florida State University | |
| Place of Publication: | Tallahassee, Florida | |
| Physical Form: |
computer online resource |
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| Extent: | 1 online resource (155 pages) | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic perspectives of Raymond Monelle, Danuta Mirka, and Stephen Rumph on the notion of musical topics (style references), I posit a generalized model of topical signification that is sound regardless of stylistic context. From this theoretical stance, I infer three categories of topics in hard bop: vernacular topics, nostalgic topics, and exotic topics. This study culminates with a reading of the 1963 Jazz Messengers recording of Wayne Shorter’s “One by One” (Ugetsu: Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers at Birdland) that questions the narrative temptations that topics may elicit. This reading draws on Lawrence Kramer’s notion of “narrativity”—a meaningful teleological impulse (e.g., a power struggle)—but does not espouse any master narrative or plot. Instead, my eclectic interpretation draws on the philosophical and psychoanalytic writings of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Slavoj Žižek to establish a network of associative meanings. | |
| Identifier: | FSU_SUMMER2017_Thompson_fsu_0071E_13847 (IID) | |
| Submitted Note: | A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. | |
| Degree Awarded: | Summer Semester 2017. | |
| Date of Defense: | May 3, 2017. | |
| Keywords: | jazz, narrative, semiotics, topic theory | |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Advisory Committee: | Evan A. Jones, Professor Directing Dissertation; Denise Von Glahn, University Representative; Joseph Kraus, Committee Member; Jane Piper Clendinning, Committee Member. | |
| Subject(s): | Music | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_SUMMER2017_Thompson_fsu_0071E_13847 | |
| Owner Institution: | FSU |
Thompson, D. J. (2017). Interpreting Hard Bop: Topics, Narrative, and Subjectivity. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_SUMMER2017_Thompson_fsu_0071E_13847
