Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz

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Title:

Author:

Baber, Katherine A., 1981- author.

Series:

Music in American life

Music in American life.

Publication Date:

2019

Publication Information:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Physical Description:

x, 268 pages : music ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780252042379

9780252084164

Contents:

Bernstein's philosophy and the language of jazz -- Trading fours : Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and jazz -- A jazz-shaped America : swing styles in Fancy Free and On the Town -- Jazz as a rhetoric of conflict in Symphony no. 2 : The Age of Anxiety -- West Side Story, modern jazz, and the musical commitment -- "Red, white and blues" : Bernstein's blues and the American soul -- Conclusion.

Personal Subject:

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Jazz -- History and criticism.

Language:

English

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