French music and jazz in conversation : from Debussy to Brubeck / Deborah Mawer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mawer, Deborah, 1961- author.

Series:

Music since 1900.

Music since 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

French Music & Jazz in Conversation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. But 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.

Contents:

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 (1900-1935): 3. Debussy and Satie: early French explorations of cakewalk and ragtime; 4. Milhaud's understanding of jazz and blues: La Creation du monde; 5. Crossing borders: Ravel's theory and practice of jazz

Part III. The Impact of French Music upon Jazz (1925-1965): 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-19094-3

1-316-18908-2

1-316-63387-X

1-316-20940-7

1-316-20573-8

1-316-20203-8

1-139-77535-9

1-316-20754-4

1-316-20390-5