French music and jazz in conversation : from Debussy to Brubeck
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French music and jazz in conversation : from Debussy to Brubeck
(Music since 1900)
Cambridge University Press, 2016, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293) and index
"First published 2014. First paperback edition 2016"--T.p. verso
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Description
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.
Table of 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 (1900-35): 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 (1925-65): 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.
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