A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
by George E. Lewis
Univ of Chicago Pr

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A 700+ page book on free jazz is a hard sell even if one is interested in the subject...but this book is so much more. A much overlooked history on a group of individuals aching to create not just an art form that is intimate, but a whole community of freedom and self expression. It is common knowledge amongst musicians that it is painful at best to keep communication open in a group of even three bandmates...the AACM has over thirty. Mr. Lewis, an acomplished musician in his own right and a member himself, takes the reader through not only the history of the group but personal dialogues of musicians involved regarding the cultural and philosophical implications of their new music. This is heady stuff dealing with everything from the break from Bebop to African American identity to the power music has over life...perfect for the musician interested in creating something extraordinary.