French Music and Jazz in Conversation : From Debussy to Brubeck (Paperback)

Introduction. French music and jazz: cultural exchange; Part I. Locations and Relations: 1. A historical-cultural overview; 2. Critical-analytical perspectives: intertextuality and borrowing; Part II. The Impact of Early Jazz upon French Music (1900?35): 3. Debussy and Satie: early French explorations of cakewalk and ragtime; 4. Milhaud's understanding of jazz and blues: La Creation du monde; 5. Crossing borders: Ravel's theory and practice of jazz; Part III. The Impact of French Music upon Jazz (1925?65): 6. Hylton's interwar 'jazzed' arrangements of French classics; 7. (Re)moving boundaries? Russell's Lydian jazz theory and its rethinking of Debussy and Ravel; 8. Bill Evans's modal jazz and French music reconfigured; 9. Milhaud and Brubeck: French classical teacher and American jazz student.