Catherine Tackley

Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199911035
• Artikelnr.: 38180254

Autorenporträt

Catherine Tackley is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK. She is the author of The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 (Ashgate, 2005) and is a co-editor of the Jazz Research Journal (Equinox). Catherine is Director of Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats Big Band.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Part 1 - Context
Precedents
Promotion
Program
Part 2 - Performance
The Orchestra
Twenty Years of Jazz
Jam Session
Trio/Quartet
Conclusion
Part 3 - Representation
Repercussions
Recording
Reception
Recreation
Appendix 1 - Carnegie Hall Program
Appendix 2 - Members of the Orchestra
Notes
References
Discography