| Contents |
The influence of Celtic music on the evolution of jazz / Franz Kerschbaumer -- "Beyond the Spanish tinge": Hispanics and Latinos in early New Orleans jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Why did art music composers pay attention to jazz?: the impact of jazz on the French musical field, 1908-1924 / Martin Guerpin -- Violin and bowed strings in jazz: a French school? / Vincent Cotro -- Sacred, country, and urban tunes: the European songbook-"Greensleeves" to "Les feuilles mortes" ("Autumn leaves"), "Gigolo" to "O solo mio" / Luca Cerchiari -- Across Europe: improvisation as a real and metaphorical journey / Arrigo Cappelletti -- Cross-cultural links: black minstrels, cakewalks, ragtime / Rainer E. Lotz -- Benny Carter in Britain, 1936-1937 / Catherine Tackley Parsonage -- "A new reason for living": Duke Ellington in France / John Edward Hasse -- Cool jazz in Europe / Manfred Straka -- Orchestral thoughts: jazz composition in Europe and America (an interview with composer-director Giorgio Caslini) / Davide Ielmini -- The New Orleans revival in Britain and France / Alyn Shipton -- The European jazz avant-garde of the late 1960s and the early 1970s: where did emancipation lead? / Ekkehard Jost -- Did Europe "discover" jazz? / Laurent Cugny -- European jazz developments in cross-cultural dialogue with the United States and their relationship to the counterculture of the 1960s / Jürgen Arndt -- Europe and the new jazz studies / Tony Whyton -- Revisioning history lived: four European expats, three men and one woman, who shaped one American life in two American cultures / Mike Heffley -- European sounds: mimesis and identity in European jazz technologies / Gianfranco Salvatore -- Roots and collage: contemporary European jazz in postmodern times / Herbert Hellhund. |
| Abstract |
It is often said that jazz is America's great gift to the world, but while true, this belies the surprising, often crucial role that Europe has played in the development and popularity of jazz throughout the world. Based on a series of symposia attracting leading scholars, critics, and musicians from throughout Europe and the United States, this book first addresses the impact of European musical traditions and instruments on the formation and development of American jazz. Part two details the vital experiences of American musicians on European soil, from black minstrels to such jazz greats as Benny Carter and Duke Ellington, and deals with European jazzmen and their developments of American jazz styles. The final part chronicles the importance of European critics and musicologists in jazz criticism and offers essays on European contributions to jazz musicianship and production. This book proves that jazz is simply too rich and varied for one country to claim, define, or contain. This groundbreaking collection will appeal to jazz aficionados, scholars, musicologists, and musicians. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012014094 |
| ISBN | 9781584658641 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1584658649 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781611682984 (ebook : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1611682983 (ebook : alk. paper) |
