garthsj Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 I thought that many of you might be interested in this new publication: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0195128257...0890_pe_snp_257 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 well... I owuld be cautious with a book like this, and just to offer full dislosure, there is some bad blood between myself and Ingrid - she tends to have a classic academic perspective, long on sociology and short on real musical understanding, with a lot of PC stuff thrown in from the perspective of race. I listened to one of her lectures years ago on music and Civil Rights at some conference, and Dan Morgenstern, who sat beside me, whispered a correction in my ear every time she made a mis-statement. As for that bad blood, I have long battled against academia on the Jazz Research internet group (run by the esteemed and now absent-from-organissimo Michael Fitzgerald) and she got furious when I made certain criticisms of Sherry Tucker's book Swing Shift (which presents the novel theory that Billie Holiday was ashamed of her blackness) - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 (edited) Well, Monson did include your book in the readings for her class. That said, I agree that she always seemed to me to be pretty out of touch. Edited October 17, 2007 by Big Wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 now I feel guilty - but at least she has good taste in some things - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Weil Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 I've got IM's rhythm section book, which I've dipped into and quite liked when I've done it. To me she seems OK - like I've got a good sense from her. I don't get the sense of her being overwhelmed with ideological theories. I mean she seems to have a coherent style - so that neither fact nor conceptualisation become dominant. Rather one informs the other and you get a proper bit of writing. So, in that sense, I would have to doubt that she's a pure academic. On the Billie Holiday thing , God knows, but she had a self-destructive (=?self-hating) bug somewhere. I'm not sure I'd bring that up as evidence for or against Monson's ability to write in her own area. There's a million academics out there who beat you to death with theory. I don't think Monson's one of them. My idea of her based on reading for (her) style. Simon Weil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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