Roland Guillon (born 1942) is a French sociologist, known both for his work on the problems of employment and capital, and particularly, for his innovative approach to jazz.
He is a research engineer at the Centre for Economics and Ethics on Environment and Development at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. A specialist in employment and training, he has undertaken several missions in West Africa.
He is behind the definition of the term New Wave in jazz. Inspired by what was called New Thing in the late 1950s, Guillon believes that the term is inappropriate and replaces thing with wave, a word which connotes movement, perhaps to signify the permanence of swing.
New Wave is a synthesis of two main jazz styles, hard bop and free jazz. New Wave composers or artists include, but are not limited to, artists involved in both styles.
In , Guillon establishes a chronology of the style and analyzes several albums key to understanding the movement. Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Don Cherry are illustrious members, as well as lesser-known musicians such as Prince Lasha.
Bibliography
Sociology
- (Unions in mutations and employment crisis), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997
- (Environment and employment: what approaches a union?), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998
- (Research on employment, elements of sociology of economic activity), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999
- (Unions and globalization, stratification of the labor union), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000
- (Training and employment change), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
- (Perspectives on social capital), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003
- (Tensions on the activity in West Africa), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004
- (Ruling classes and universities in globalization), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004
- (Sociology of work, a critical reading of globalization), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005
- (Avatars of thought leadership, the case of the Socialist Party), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006
Jazz
- (Hard Bop, a style of jazz), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999
- (The four cities of Jazz, Hard bopper from Chicago), Détroit, Pittsburgh et Philadelphie, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001
- (Jazz musicians of New York, the hard bopper), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003
- (Hard Bop Anthology, The brightness of the black American jazz), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005
- (The New Wave, a jazz of the two), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007
- (The footprint of Parker, Gillespie and Ellington on the jazz of the 1950sâÂÂ1960s), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2011
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