Title:
Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz
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:
Language:
English
