Articles by Kevin Fellezs

Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

by Kevin Fellezs
January 15, 2012

This article appears in Chapter 3 of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion by Kevin Fellezs (Duke University Press, 2011). Vital Transformation: Fusion's Discontents Ironically, fusion was, on the one hand, largely a concern for jazz participants and observers even though they largely denied its value or any valid connection to “real jazz." On the other hand, despite rock and funk critics and musicians' interest in augmenting commercial success with the ...