Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Green, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316188620
• Artikelnr.: 42223040

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Evan Spring; Editor's introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic
Realism Edward Green; Part I. Ellington in Context: 1. Artful
entertainment: Ellington's formative years in context John Howland; 2. The
process of becoming: composition and recomposition David Berger; 3.
Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew
Stephen D. James and J. Walker James; 4. Ellington abroad Brian Priestley;
5. Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon Olly W. Wilson and Trevor
Weston; Part II. Duke Through the Decades: The Music and Its Reception: 6.
Ellington's afro-modernist vision in the 1920s Jeffrey Magee; 7. Survival,
adaptation and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the
1930s Andrew Berish; 8. The 1940s: The Blanton-Webster Band, Carnegie Hall,
and the challenge of the postwar era Anna Harwell Celenza; 9. Duke in the
1950s: renaissance man Anthony Brown; 10. Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s:
triumph and tragedy Dan Morgenstern; Part III. Ellington and the Jazz
Tradition: 11. Ellington and the blues Benjamin Givan; 12. 'Seldom seen,
but always heard': Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington Walter van de Leur;
13. Duke Ellington and the world of jazz piano Bill Dobbins; 14. Duke and
descriptive music Marcello Piras; 15. Sing a song of Ellington, or, the
accidental songwriter Will Friedwald; 16. The land of suites: Ellington and
extended form David Berger; 17. Duke Ellington's legacy and influence
Benjamin Bierman.