French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy to Brubeck (Music since 1900)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781316633878
$33.89
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.
- | Author: Deborah Mawer
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 20, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 322 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Music
- | ISBN-10: 131663387X
- | ISBN-13: 9781316633878
- Author:
- Deborah Mawer
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 20, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 322 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Music
- ISBN-10:
- 131663387X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316633878