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Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on The Burton Greene Affair, exploring the tangled relationship between black avantgarde in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a distinct form of black cultural nationalism, and the complex engagement with and disavowal of homoeroticism that bridges the two. Fred Moten focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performanceculture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itselfis improvisation.For Moten, improvisation provides a unique epistemological standpoint from which to investigate the provocative connections between black aesthetics and Western philosophy. He engages in a strenuous critical analysis of Western philosophy (Heidegger, Kant, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Derrida) through the prism of radical black thought and culture. As the critical, lyrical, and disruptive performance of the human, Motens concept of blackness also brings such figures as Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx, Cecil Taylor and Samuel R. Delany, Billie Holiday and William Shakespeare into conversation with each other.Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Motens wideranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplinessemiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysisto understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Motens ambitious intellectual projectto establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition
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- Q: What is the main theme of 'In The Break'? A: 'In The Break' explores the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics, focusing on the black radical tradition.
- Q: Who is the author of 'In The Break'? A: The author of 'In The Break' is Fred Moten.
- Q: What topics does Fred Moten cover in this book? A: Fred Moten covers topics such as black aesthetics, Western philosophy, improvisation in jazz, and the intersection of culture, politics, and sexuality.
- Q: What is the publication date of 'In The Break'? A: 'In The Break' was published on April 9, 2003.
- Q: How many pages does 'In The Break' have? A: 'In The Break' contains 332 pages.
- Q: What is the binding type of 'In The Break'? A: 'In The Break' is available in paperback binding.
- Q: Is 'In The Break' a first edition? A: Yes, 'In The Break' is a first edition.
- Q: What categories does 'In The Break' fall under? A: 'In The Break' falls under the category of History & Criticism.
- Q: What is the condition of the book? A: 'In The Break' is in new condition.
- Q: What kind of analysis does Moten provide in the book? A: Moten provides a critical analysis of Western philosophy through the lens of radical black thought and culture.