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Music musique : French & American piano composition in the Jazz Age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meister, Barbara, 1932-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Jazz > History and criticism.
Music > France > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music > United States > 20th century > History and criticism.
Piano music > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The formation of a French style of composition
  • The formation of an American style of composition
  • A brief history of jazz in America
  • American composers in the 1920s, part I
  • American composers in the 1920s, part II
  • The Harlem renaissance
  • America in the 1930s
  • Paris in the 1920s, part I
  • Paris in the 1920s, part II
  • Edgar Varèse and Igor Stravinsky
  • Paris in the 1930s
  • Epilogue-envoi.