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Christopher Coady - John Lewis and the Challenge of
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John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music

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Description for John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music Hardback. The first scholarly study of John Lewis and the Third Stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 tables, 18 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.

For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of “Real” Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the form’s most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an arranger for Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool sessions to his leadership of the Modern Jazz Quartet, his tours of Europe, and his stewardship of the Lenox School of Jazz.

Along the way Coady shows how Lewis’s fusion works helped shore up a failing jazz industry in the wake of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Jazz Perspectives
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472073207
SKU
V9780472073207
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Ref
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About Christopher Coady
Christopher Coady is a lecturer in musicology, University of Sydney

Reviews for John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music
“A remarkable piece of jazz scholarship that is timely and fills at least two significant needs in the discipline. The first is a deeply investigated, serious consideration of the work of one of the music’s great masters, John Lewis. Second, but equally important, this is a rich meditation on questions about race, nation, and authenticity in the music that scholars ... Read more

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