![]() ![]() It was that determination to break down category barriers that led Beal to propose Bley as a subject when, three years ago, she was asked to do a book in the American Composers series. "if we're teaching John Cage, why not Carla Bley?" Bley was already involved with unlikely collaborators, people like the Cream's lead singer Jack Bruce."īeal was teaching American experimental music at the University of Michigan at the time and asked herself, "why not jazz composers as a subject? My dissertation was about John Cage and experimental music, and I became aware of stylistic prejudice in the academy in terms of narrow categories of music." Why jazz couldn't be considered avant garde," she asked herself. "It was composed during a time when free jazz, concept rock, that kind of experimentation was happening-the late sixties and early seventies. "I became aware of her in graduate school and started listening to her jazz opera, Escalator Over the Hill," Beal recalls. While not a household name in academic circles, Bley is considered something of a cult legend among avant garde and jazz aficionados. ![]() Haunted by an enduring interest in jazz icon Carla Bley, music historian Amy Beal took an editor's request for a manuscript as the perfect excuse to track down oral histories, study the music, interview Bley herself and finally write her latest book "from the 10th floor of the NYU Library-staring at the Empire State Building." Statement on Mentorship in the UCSC Arts Division.University of the Future, NOW! Arts Dean’s DEI Funding for Students.University of the Future, Now! Arts Dean’s DEI Funding for Staff.Performance, Play & Design (formerly Theater Arts / AGPM).Contemporary Print Media Research Center.Center for the Study of the Force Majeure.Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence and Equity.Support the Arts Research Institute's Art + Oppression Initiative. ![]()
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