{"product_id":"gettin-around-jrgen-e-grandt-9780820354354","title":"Gettin' Around: Jazz, Script, Transnationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGettin' Around \u003c\/em\u003eexamines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history. J?gen E. Grandt deliberately refrains from a narrow, empirical definition of jazz or of transnationalism and, true to the jazz aesthetic itself, opts for a broader, more inclusive scope, even as he listens carefully and closely to jazz's variegated soundtrack. Such an approach seeks not only to avoid the museal whiff of a \"golden age, time past\" but also to broaden the appeal and the applicability of the overall critical argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Grandt, \"international\" simply designates currents of people, ideas, and goods between distinct geopolitical entities or nation-states, whereas \"transnational\" refers to liminal dynamics that transcend preordained borderlines occurring above, below, beside, or along the outer contours of nation-states. \u003cem\u003eGettin' Around \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a long overdue consideration of the ways in which jazz music can inform critical practice in the field of transnational (American) studies and grounds these studies in specifically African American cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J?gen E. Grandt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082035435X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820354354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"J?gen E. Grandt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120345575679,"sku":"9780820354354","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8907dd9-2c3d-498f-a23d-9d6e66b18cea.jpg?v=1687413822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gettin-around-jrgen-e-grandt-9780820354354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}