Deborah Mawer

French Music and Jazz in Conversation (eBook, ePUB)

From Debussy to Brubeck

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316189085
• Artikelnr.: 52963200

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.