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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808007003321

Titolo

Eurojazzland [[electronic resource] ] : jazz and European sources, dynamics, and contexts / / edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny, and Franz Kerschbaumer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-69872-1

9786613675682

1-61168-298-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CerchiariLuca

CugnyLaurent

KerschbaumerFranz

Disciplina

781.65094

Soggetti

Jazz - Europe - History and criticism

Music - Europe - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I | Europe as a Source of Jazz; 1 | The Influence of Celtic Music on the Evolution of Jazz; 2 | Beyond the ''Spanish Tinge'': Hispanics and Latinos in Early New Orleans Jazz; 3 | Why Did Art Music Composers Pay Attention to ''Jazz''?: The Impact of ''Jazz'' on the French Musical Field, 1908-1924; 4 | Violin and Bowed Strings in Jazz: A French School?; 5 | Sacred, Country, and Urban Tunes: The European Songbook;  ''Greensleeves'' to ''Les feuilles mortes'' (''Autumn Leaves''), ''Gigolo'' to '''O sole mio''

6 | Across Europe: Improvisation as a Real and Metaphorical Journey Part II | Jazz Meets Europe; 7 | Cross-Cultural Links: Black Minstrels, Cakewalks, and Ragtime; 8 | Benny Carter in Britain, 1936-1937; 9 | ''A New Reason for Living'': Duke Ellington in France; 10 | Cool Jazz in Europe; 11 | Orchestral Thoughts: Jazz Composition in Europe and America(An Interview with Composer-Director Giorgio Gaslini); 12 | The New Orleans Revival in Britain and France; 13 | The European Jazz Avant-Garde of the Late 1960's and Early 1970's: Where Did Emancipation Lead?



Part III | The Circulation of Eurojazzland14 | Did Europe ''Discover'' Jazz?; 15 | European Jazz Developments in Cross-Cultural Dialogue with the United States and Their Relationship to the Counterculture of the 1960's; 16 | Europe and the New Jazz Studies; 17 | Revisioning History Lived: Four European Expats, Three Men and One Woman, Who Shaped One American Life in Two American Cultures; 18 | Utopian Sounds: Mimesis and Identity in European Jazz Technologies; 19 | Roots and Collage: Contemporary European Jazz in Postmodern Times; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The critical role of Europe in the music, personalities, and analysis of jazz