From Debussy to Brubeck
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/12/2014
French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900-65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a general, if contested, interest in the cultural interplay of classical music and jazz, few writers have probed the specific French music-jazz relationship in depth. In this book, Deborah Mawer sets such musical interplay within its historical-cultural and critical-analytical contexts, offering a detailed yet accessible account of both French and American perspectives. Blending intertextuality with more precise borrowing techniques, Mawer presents case studies on the musical interactions of a wide range of composers and performers, including Debussy, Satie, Milhaud, Ravel, Jack Hylton, George Russell, Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck.
- ISBN:
- 9781107037533
- 9781107037533
- Category:
- 20th century & contemporary classical music
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 04-12-2014
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 322
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x180x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.71kg
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