Music musique : French & American piano composition in the Jazz Age / Barbara Meister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meister, Barbara, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Music--France--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

France.

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

United States.

Piano music--History and criticism.

Piano music.

Physical Description:

163 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

Summary:

An engaging look at the fertile mix of national styles that created a new music in the years before World War II

Contents:

Introduction

The formation of a French style of composition

The formation of an American style of composition

A brief history of jazz in America

American composers in the 1920s, part I

American composers in the 1920s, part II

The Harlem renaissance

America in the 1930s

Paris in the 1920s, part I

Paris in the 1920s, part II

Edgar Varèse and Igor Stravinsky

Paris in the 1930s

Epilogue-envoi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-153) and index.

ISBN:

0253346088

OCLC:

64098408

Publisher Number:

9780253346087