Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

Katherine Baber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08416-4 (ISBN)

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Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.

Katherine Baber is an associate professor of music history at the University of Redlands.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Bernstein’s Philosophy and the Language of Jazz2. Trading Fours: Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and Jazz3. A Jazz-Shaped America: Swing Styles in Fancy Free and On the Town4. Jazz as a Rhetoric of Conflict in Symphony no. 2: The Age of Anxiety5. West Side Story, Modern Jazz, and Musical Commitment6. “Red, White and Blues”: Bernstein’s Blues and the American SoulConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	22 music examples, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-252-08416-0 / 0252084160
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08416-4 / 9780252084164
Zustand	Neuware