![]() Be Set Free $0.00 I purchased this song in hopes that it might answer the question it raises, a question I have been asking "God knows Who" for some time now without satisfaction. I don't get why guys who have that "bleached black" look try to sound like soul singers, but then I don't know if this is a "promotional" song or a a real one, I have had a hard time distinguishing between the two for some time now. ![]() Hohner Toddler 5 pc. Music Band $29.99 My 12-month old loves this product, particularly the xylophone and the drum. The rattles are great and easy to hold too. A great little set! ![]() This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) $22.50 This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis, taking as its example the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz. By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, Sixties politics, and patronage networks. Anderson emphasizes free improvisation's enormous impact on jazz music's institutional standing, despite ongoing resistance from some of its biggest beneficiaries. He concludes that attempts by African American artists and intellectuals to define a place for themselves in American life, structural changes in the music industry, and the rise of nonprofit sponsorship portended a significant transformation of established cultural standards. At the same time, free improvisation's growing prestige depended in part upon traditional highbrow criteria: increasingly esoteric styles, changing venues and audience behavior, European sanction, withdrawal from the marketplace, and the professionalization of criticism. Thus jazz music's performers and supporters--and potentially those in other arts--have both challenged and accommodated themselves to an ongoing process of cultural stratification. ![]() 2.5mm to 3.5mm Stereo Audio Headset Adapter for Apple iPhone/ iPhone 3G S - Switch any Music Phone Stereo Handsfree with 2.5mm 3 ring Plug to Apple iPhone Stereo Handsfree $0.99 I just received and tested that this adapter successfully connects my iPhone 3GS to a standard wired 2.5 mm telephone headset with microphone and mono earphone. I also use this same headset with my home cordless phones and my mobile phones that have 2.5 mm jacks. As I've only just received the adapter, I cannot speak to durability. |
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