French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy to Brubeck

di Deborah Mawer (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2016

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.

• Autore: Deborah Mawer
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Music since 1900
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 322 p.
• Dimensioni: 245 x 170 mm
• Peso: 560 gr.
• EAN: 9781316633878

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