{"product_id":"french-music-and-jazz-in-conversation-9781316633878","title":"French Music and Jazz in Conversation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the rich historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz in the first half of the twentieth century (190065), from both perspectives. Deborah Mawer provides a set of detailed musical case studies on Debussy, Satie, Milhaud, Ravel, Jack Hylton, George Russell, Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is the book for which jazz scholarship has long been waiting: at last, the hugely significant interactions between jazz and modern concert music have been unravelled with the insight, technical understanding and contextual awareness they deserve. Professor Mawer delves deeply into this two-way process in a series of fascinating case studies which celebrate some of the most exciting and far-reaching musical cross-fertilizations of the twentieth century.' Mervyn Cooke, Professor of Music, University of Nottingham\u003cbr\u003e'At once an important survey of French music and jazz history, Mawer's book also brilliantly draws attention to the compelling cross-references and interactions between these worlds. The theoretical sophistication of the academy seamlessly merges with the dynamism of a jazz club, and the resulting mix has the intellectual and musical power of both.' Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. 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 Création 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084623802711,"sku":"9781316633878","price":31.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781316633878.jpg?v=1762206932","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/french-music-and-jazz-in-conversation-9781316633878","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}