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French Music and Jazz in Conversation

French Music and Jazz in Conversation From Debussy to Brubeck - Music Since 1900

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9781316633878
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.681650944
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 590g
Height: 173mm
Width: 245mm
Spine width: 22mm