02799oam 2200553 450 991013602580332120170130190248.00-472-12226-610.3998/mpub.8890284(CKB)3710000000908916(MiAaPQ)EBC4721258(OCoLC)960976672(MdBmJHUP)muse54278(MiU)10.3998/mpub.8890284(EXLCZ)99371000000090891620160614d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierJohn Lewis and the challenge of "real" black music /Christopher CoadyAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2016]1 online resource (254 pages)Jazz perspectives0-472-05320-5 0-472-07320-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229), filmography (page 233), and index.For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. Christopher Coady explores the work ofone of the form's most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an arranger for Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions to his leadershipof the Modern Jazz Quartet, his tours of Europe, and his stewardship of the Lenox School of Jazz. Along the way Coady shows how Lewis's fusion works helped shore up a failing jazz industry in the wake of the 1940s big band decline, forging a new sound grounded in middle-class African American musical traditions. By taking into account the sociocultural milieu of the 1950s, Coady provides a wider context for understanding the music Lewis wrote for the Modern Jazz Quartet and sets up new ways of thinking about Cool Jazzand Third Stream music more broadly.Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)African American jazz musiciansHistory and criticismThird stream (Music)History and criticismJazz1941-1950History and criticismJazz1951-1960History and criticismMusic and raceUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican American jazz musiciansHistory and criticism.Third stream (Music)History and criticism.JazzHistory and criticism.JazzHistory and criticism.Music and raceHistory781.65092Coady Christopher1980-1245614Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910136025803321John Lewis and the challenge of "real" black music2888808UNINA