Contra ' Verses: Jazz with the intersectionality of race and politics
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Abstract
This project is both a musical performance and an original album idea. My intention is to explore the trope of creating contrafacts from jazz standards (i.e. Tin Pan Alley, Great American Songbook). Inspired by the contrafacts I was required to submit of: “All the Things You Are,” “Inner Urge,” and Footprints”; which I submitted as: “All the Things Emmett Till Could have Been,” “Inner Outer Africa” and “Harriet Tubman’s Feet” respectively. My contrafacts both play on the wording of the standard and allude to a historical and racial significance replete with contradiction. They have relevance to both American history and current socio-political unrest in this country. The notion of relevance is essential here. I want to create jazz that is engaging and entertaining to my generation, and without relevance that becomes impossible.
Publication Date
7-1-2017
Campus
Boston Campus
Recommended Citation
Banks, Nzinga, "Contra ' Verses: Jazz with the intersectionality of race and politics" (2017). Global Jazz. 36.
https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/36
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Project Components: presentation (.pdf), audio files (ZIP file containing 3 .wav files), scores (ZIP file containing 2 .pdf documents).