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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz (Hardcover)
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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz (Hardcover)
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Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular
audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American
music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from
modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his
musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual.
Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served
Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she
shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all
its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and
conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender.
Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz
grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as
a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national
identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the
Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to
explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like
eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement,
black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.
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