French Music and Jazz in Conversation : From Debussy to Brubeck Paperback / softback
by Deborah Mawer
Part of the Music since 1900 series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:322 pages, 54 Printed music items; 6 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781316633878
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:322 pages, 54 Printed music items; 6 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781316633878
