{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-duke-ellington-paperback-9780521707534","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington (Paperback) 9780521707534","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdward Green (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521707534, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 8 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  53 music examples\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This Cambridge Companion helps the reader see two divide-and-conquer approaches to his artistic oeuvre: by decade, and by genres such as suites, songs, and the blues. Elling-tonians and professors will read this book from cover to cover, and students needing material for jazz term papers will be thankful for the analyses of individual pieces that are embedded in some of the essays.' Edward Komara, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDuke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChronology Evan Spring\u003cbr\u003e Editor's introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism Edward Green\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Ellington in Context: 1. Artful entertainment: Ellington's formative years in context John Howland\u003cbr\u003e 2. The process of becoming: composition and recomposition David Berger\u003cbr\u003e 3. Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew Stephen D. James and J. Walker James\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ellington abroad Brian Priestley\u003cbr\u003e 5. Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon Olly W. Wilson and Trevor Weston\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Duke Through the Decades: The Music and Its Reception: 6. Ellington's afro-modernist vision in the 1920s Jeffrey Magee\u003cbr\u003e 7. Survival, adaptation and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s Andrew Berish\u003cbr\u003e 8. The 1940s: The Blanton–Webster Band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era Anna Harwell Celenza\u003cbr\u003e 9. Duke in the 1950s: renaissance man Anthony Brown\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s: triumph and tragedy Dan Morgenstern\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Ellington and the Jazz Tradition: 11. Ellington and the blues Benjamin Givan\u003cbr\u003e 12. 'Seldom seen, but always heard': Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington Walter van de Leur\u003cbr\u003e 13. Duke Ellington and the world of jazz piano Bill Dobbins\u003cbr\u003e 14. Duke and descriptive music Marcello Piras\u003cbr\u003e 15. Sing a song of Ellington, or, the accidental songwriter Will Friedwald\u003cbr\u003e 16. The land of suites: Ellington and extended form David Berger\u003cbr\u003e 17. Duke Ellington's legacy and influence Benjamin Bierman.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Individual composers \u0026amp; musicians, specific bands \u0026amp; groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Individual%20composers%20\u0026amp;%20musicians,%20specific%20bands%20\u0026amp;%20groups%20%5BAVH%5D%22\"\u003eAVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20music%20\u0026amp;%20musicology%20%5BAVA%5D%22\"\u003eAVA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002980389144,"sku":"9780521707534","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521707534i_0e07799b-12d5-497a-a897-e2d9314997c2.jpg?v=1691380235","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-duke-ellington-paperback-9780521707534","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}