The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

Herausgeber: Celenza, Anna Harwell

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how Gershwin's iconic music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests as well as technological advances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423533
• ISBN-10: 1108423531
• Artikelnr.: 56028796

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Historical Context: 1. The unlikely patriarch Michael Owen; 2.
Hearing Gershwin's New York Ellen Noonan; 3. Gershwin's musical education
Susan Neimoyer; 4. Gershwin in Hollywood Jessica Getman; Part II. Profiles
of the Music: 5. Blue Monday and New York theatrical aesthetics Kristen M.
Turner; 6. Broadway in blue: Gershwin's musical theatre scores and songs
Todd Decker; 7. The works for piano and orchestra Timothy Freeze; 8.
Harmonizing music and money: Gershwin's economic strategies from 'Swanee'
to An American in Paris Mark Clague; 9. Exploring new worlds: An American
in Paris, Cuban Overture and Porgy and Bess Anna Harwell Celenza; 10.
Complexities in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: historical and performing
contexts Naomi André; 11. Writing for the big screen: Shall We Dance and A
Damsel in Distress Nathan Platte; Part III. Influence and Reception: 12.
The coverage of Gershwin in music history text Howard Pollack; 13. When
Ella Fitzgerald sang Gershwin: a chapter from the Great American Songbook
Will Friedwald; 14. The afterlife of Rhapsody in Blue Ryan Raul Bañagale;
15. Broadway's 'new' Gershwin musicals: romance, jazz, and the ghost of
Fred Astaire Todd Decker; 16. Gershwin and instrumental jazz Nate Sloan;
Epilogue: the Gershwin I knew, and the Gershwin I know Michael Feinstein.