Blue Rhythm Fantasy

Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era

John Wriggle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04040-5 (ISBN)

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Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music's unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wriggle takes you behind the scenes of New York City's vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and 1940s to uncover the lives and work of jazz arrangers, both black and white, who left an indelible mark on American music and culture. Blue Rhythm Fantasy traces the extraordinary career of arranger Chappie Willet--a collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and many others--to revisit legendary Swing Era venues and performers from Harlem to Times Square. Wriggle's insightful music analyses of big band arranging techniques explore representations of cultural modernism, discourses on art and commercialism, conceptions of race and cultural identity, music industry marketing strategies, and stage entertainment variety genres.

Drawing on archives, obscure recordings, untapped sources in the African American press, and interviews with participants, Blue Rhythm Fantasy is a long-overdue study of the arranger during this dynamic era of American music history.

John Wriggle is a musicologist, composer, arranger, and trombonist. He has taught for the City University of New York, Rutgers University, and Boston University.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	19 black and white photographs, 85 music examples, 14 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-252-04040-6 / 0252040406
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04040-5 / 9780252040405
Zustand	Neuware