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The Aesthetics of Free Jazz Style ; Realization and Limitation of its Freedom Concept

Nam Jung Woo 1

1순천향대학교

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Freedom is the essential idea that the jazz music is to acquire as its aesthetical goal. So jazz contains the free improvisation as its formality of musical playing which originates in the formal simplicity of african rooted bluse tradition. Free jazz style is a consequence of this aesthetics which is trying to break the practice of the musical formality considered as a obstacle to the freedom. But the free jazz is a music also, hence the trial to be free from the formality could not be possible technically. The free jazz experiment carried out by Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor had brought to the consequence of 'harmolody' and 'melodic beat', which were interpreted also as a variation of traditional musical formality. Therefore the aesthetical experiments of those free jazz musicians could be regarded as to be failed. But the aesthetical experiment of free jazz can be signified through the symbolic aesthetics of Susanne Langer. According to her symbolism, art is a process of 'presentational symbol' about the non-linguistic realm, such as feeling, desire, satisfaction, which derive from the experience of everyday lives. So it is distinguished from the 'discursive symbol' of linguistic-scientific realm of our understanding communication. In this perspective, the free jazz is a symbolic presentation of experience and feeling to the idea of freedom, and it must be suited to the peculiar logical formality of music also. And we cognize and understand this symbolic presentation as in any way of the free jazz's trial through its symbolic significance.

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