jazz and European sources, dynamics, and contexts /
edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny, and Franz Kerschbaumer
Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
c2012
xviii, 484 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The influence of Celtic music on the evolution of jazz / Franz Kerschbaumer -- "Beyond the Spanish tinge": Hispanics and Latinos in early New Orleans jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Why did art music composers pay attention to jazz?: the impact of jazz on the French musical field, 1908-1924 / Martin Guerpin -- Violin and bowed strings in jazz: a French school? / Vincent Cotro -- Sacred, country, and urban tunes: the European songbook-"Greensleeves" to "Les feuilles mortes" ("Autumn leaves"), "Gigolo" to "O solo mio" / Luca Cerchiari -- Across Europe: improvisation as a real and metaphorical journey / Arrigo Cappelletti -- Cross-cultural links: black minstrels, cakewalks, ragtime / Rainer E. Lotz -- Benny Carter in Britain, 1936-1937 / Catherine Tackley Parsonage -- "A new reason for living": Duke Ellington in France / John Edward Hasse -- Cool jazz in Europe / Manfred Straka -- Orchestral thoughts: jazz composition in Europe and America (an interview with composer-director Giorgio Caslini) / Davide Ielmini -- The New Orleans revival in Britain and France / Alyn Shipton -- The European jazz avant-garde of the late 1960s and the early 1970s: where did emancipation lead? / Ekkehard Jost -- Did Europe "discover" jazz? / Laurent Cugny -- European jazz developments in cross-cultural dialogue with the United States and their relationship to the counterculture of the 1960s / Jürgen Arndt -- Europe and the new jazz studies / Tony Whyton -- Revisioning history lived: four European expats, three men and one woman, who shaped one American life in two American cultures / Mike Heffley -- European sounds: mimesis and identity in European jazz technologies / Gianfranco Salvatore -- Roots and collage: contemporary European jazz in postmodern times / Herbert Hellhund