| Description |
xx, 294 pages : music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Ellington in context. Artful entertainment : Ellington's formative years in context / John Howland ; The process of becoming : composition and recomposition / David Berger ; Conductor of music and men : Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew / Stephen D. James and J. Walker James ; Ellington abroad / Brian Priestley ; Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon / Olly W. Wilson and Trevor Weston -- Duke through the decades : the music and its reception. Ellington's Afro-modernist vision in the 1920s / Jeffrey Magee ; Survival, adaptation, and experimentation : Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s / Andrew Berish ; The 1940s : the Blanton-Webster band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Duke in the 1950s : renaissance man / Anthony Brown ; Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s : triumph and tragedy / Dan Morgenstern -- Ellington and the jazz tradition. Ellington and the blues / Benjamin Givan ; "Seldom seen, but always heard" : Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington / Walter van de Leur ; Duke Ellington and the world of jazz piano / Bill Dobbins ; Duke and descriptive music / Marcello Piras ; Sing a song of Ellington; or, the accidental songwriter / Will Friedwald ; The land of suites : Ellington and extended form / David Berger ; Duke Ellington's legacy and influence / Benjamin Bierman. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Jazz musicians. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bibliographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Green, Edward, 1951- editor.
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Spring, Evan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780521881197 (hardback) |
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0521881196 (hardback) |
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9780521707534 (paperback) |
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0521707536 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9780521707534 |
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