French music and jazz in conversation
Subtitle: from Debussy to Brubeck
By: Deborah Mawer
Series: Music since 1900; Music since 1900
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781107037533
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Jazz
Description: Explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900-1965, from both perspectives.

"Orleans to New Orleans and back again ... The lure and influence of jazz upon composers of French modernist music was acknowledged by an article in The musical quarterly, published as early as 1935. Conversely, as Mervyn Cooke points out, the practice of jazz improvisers 'Jazzing-up classical music is as old as jazz itself,' while for musicians like Dave Brubeck, 'Jazz has always been a hybrid music.'"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293), discography (pages 272-274), and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction. French music and jazz : cultural exchange; title: Locations and relations. A historical-cultural overview ; Critical-analytical perspectives : intertextuality and borrowing; title: The impact of early jazz upon French music (1900-1935). Debussy and Satie : early French explorations of cakewalk and ragtime ; Milhaud's understanding of jazz and blues : La création du monde ; Crossing borders : Ravel's theory and practice of jazz; title: The impact of French music upon jazz (1925-1965). Hylton's interwar 'jazzed' arrangements of French classics ; (Re)Moving boundaries? Russell's Lydian jazz theory and its rethinking of Debussy and Ravel ; Bill Evans's modal jazz and French music reconfigured ; Milhaud and Brubeck : French classical teacher and American jazz student.