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Matthew Brown - Debussy Redux - 9780253357168 - V9780253357168
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Debussy Redux

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Description for Debussy Redux Hardcover. Discusses Debussy's music in the context of pop culture Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 colour plates, 41 music excerpts. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.

The works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) had a major impact on the music of the 20th century, influencing a range of figures from Ravel and Stravinsky to Henri Dutilleux and Toru Takemitsu. Less well known is Debussy's influence on the popular culture of the period. Matthew Brown shows how Debussy's music has surfaced in an array of contexts from the film music of the 1940s to the dance music of the 1990s. It is easy to see how Debussy's impressionist soundscapes for orchestra such as La Mer and Iberia could be perfect models for accompaniments to film scenes, but as Brown makes clear Debussy's music and influence cannot by reduced to dreamy imitations of Clair de Lune. As he traces the trajectory of Debussy's stylistic evolution, Brown shows how facets of this style were reinterpreted in a surprising variety of popular musical contexts.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253357168
SKU
V9780253357168
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About Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He is the author of Explaining Tonality, Debussy's Iberia, and articles in Integral, Music Theory Spectrum, Understanding Rock, and Journal of Musicology, among others.

Reviews for Debussy Redux
"In a study that is both scholarly and highly entertaining, Matthew Brown explores pop culture's appropriations of Debussy's music in everything from '30s swing tunes, '40s movie scores, '50s lounge/exotica, '70s rock and animation, '80s action films, and Muzak. The book, however, is far more than a compendium of fascinating borrowings. The author uses these musical transfers to tackle some of the most fundamental aesthetic issues relevant to the music of all composers, not just Debussy. A very stimulating and provocative book—and a great pleasure to read."—David Grayson, Professor of Music, University of Minnesota "This is a model work of impeccable scholarship; it explores a vital topic with an original approach."—Walter T. Everett, Professor of Music, University of Michigan "Brown . . . has written a fascinating study of Claude Debussy's lifelong interest in popular music, the impact of his music on popular culture, and the migration of musical ideas, materials, and pieces between different cultural domains."—Choice "Debussy Redux is a timely and original contribution to both popular music studies and Debussy scholarship, not least for the sheer wealth of examples that Brown has amassed of what he calls 'Debussy kitsch.'"—Music Theory Online

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