Deborah Mawer

French Music and Jazz in Conversation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900-65, from both perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9781107037533
• ISBN-10: 1107037530
• Artikelnr.: 41217739

Autorenporträt

Deborah Mawer is Research Professor of Music at Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University. Her books include The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation (2006), Darius Milhaud: Modality and Structure in Music of the 1920s (1997), Ravel Studies (Cambridge, 2010) and The Cambridge Companion to Ravel (Cambridge, 2000). Her articles and reviews, also encompassing jazz and dance, have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Twentieth-Century Music, Music and Letters, Opera Quarterly, Music Theory Online and Music Analysis. In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. French music and jazz: cultural exchange; Part I. Locations
and Relations: 1. A historical-cultural overview; 2. Critical-analytical
perspectives: intertextuality and borrowing; Part II. The Impact of Early
Jazz upon French Music (1900-35): 3. Debussy and Satie: early French
explorations of cakewalk and ragtime; 4. Milhaud's understanding of jazz
and blues: La Création du monde; 5. Crossing borders: Ravel's theory and
practice of jazz; Part III. The Impact of French Music upon Jazz (1925-65):
6. Hylton's interwar 'jazzed' arrangements of French classics; 7.
(Re)moving boundaries? Russell's Lydian jazz theory and its rethinking of
Debussy and Ravel; 8. Bill Evans's modal jazz and French music
reconfigured; 9. Milhaud and Brubeck: French classical teacher and American
jazz student.