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Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
John Howland
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Description for Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
Paperback. Examining the music of Duke Ellington and James P Johnson, this title places the concert works of these two iconic figures in context through an investigation of both related compositions by black and white peers as well as symphonic jazz-style arrangements from a number of early sound films, Broadway musicals, and Harlem nightclub floor shows. Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 5 figures, 48 musical examples, 31 tables, 11 photographs in an 8-page section. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Today classical music and jazz travel in two distinctly separate streams, rarely intersecting. During the early decades of the twentieth century, however, symphonic jazz - whose most famous composition was ""Rhapsody in Blue"", by George Gershwin - involved an expansive family of music that emulated, paralleled, and intersected the jazz tradition. Though now largely forgotten, symphonic jazz was both a popular music-arranging tradition and a repertory of hybrid concert works, both areas of which reveled in the mildly irreverent interbreeding of white and black and high and low music. While the roots of symphonic jazz can be traced to certain ... Read more
Today classical music and jazz travel in two distinctly separate streams, rarely intersecting. During the early decades of the twentieth century, however, symphonic jazz - whose most famous composition was ""Rhapsody in Blue"", by George Gershwin - involved an expansive family of music that emulated, paralleled, and intersected the jazz tradition. Though now largely forgotten, symphonic jazz was both a popular music-arranging tradition and a repertory of hybrid concert works, both areas of which reveled in the mildly irreverent interbreeding of white and black and high and low music. While the roots of symphonic jazz can be traced to certain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Jazz Perspectives
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472033164
SKU
V9780472033164
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About John Howland
John Howland's work has been supported through several prestigious awards, including the honor of being one of four finalists for the 2002 best dissertation prize of the Society for American Music. He was also awarded a one-year Faculty Fellow Researcher position at the University of California at Davis. Currently he is Associate Professor of Music at Rutgers University and co-editor ... Read more
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