Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz

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Benjamin Fraser (Professor of Iberian Studies, Professor of Iberian Studies, University of Arizona)

Beyond Sketches of Spain

Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz

Benjamin Fraser (Professor of Iberian Studies, Professor of Iberian Studies, University of Arizona)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 March 2023

Jazz; Biography: arts & entertainment

"Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenç ""Tete"" Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for discordant crashes, and a development of highly original compositions. Over the course of his career, he boasted some 100 recordings spanning Denmark, Germany, Holland, Spain, and the United States, and performed with the most notable jazz luminaries including Lionel Hampton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, and Archie Shepp. In drawing from the Black American jazz form, Montoliu fashioned an adjacent critical space shaped by his experiences as a Catalan and a person with congenital visual impairment living under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework, invoking Fumi Okiji's notion of gathering in difference. In its investigation of this impressive and often overlooked transnational jazz legend, the book moves beyond mere sketches of Spanish nationhood, challenges conventional scholarly narratives, and recovers links between the United States, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and Europe."

By: Benjamin Fraser (Professor of Iberian Studies Professor of Iberian Studies University of Arizona)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780197549285
ISBN 10: 0197549284
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Iberian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of ten monographs, including The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape and Comics Form (2019), Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference (2018), and Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities (2015). Fraser currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, Founding and Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Founding Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series.