Abstract
This chapter examines the complexity of the relationship between John Coltrane's recordings and audivisual material following the release of his seminal album A Love Supreme in 1965. Drawing on video footage of the Classic Quartet's televised European Festival performances, I discuss the symbolic importance of Coltrane's music in relation to the notion of an authoritative jazz canon. The chapter comments ont he ways in which audiovisual mediations of jazz feed into mythoc representations of the past and enable seminal recordings and artists to accrue a series of cultural meanings that go betyond the production of sound.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen |
Editors | B Heile, P Elsdon, J Doctor |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 205-220 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-934766-7 |
Publication status | Published (VoR) - 2016 |