The Cambridge companion to Gershwin / edited by Anna Harwell Celenza.
| Other author | Celenza, Anna Harwell. |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xx, 312 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to music |
| Contents | Historical context. The unlikely patriarch / Michael Owen ; Hearing Gershwin's New York / Ellen Noonan ; Gershwin's musical education / Susan Neimoyer ; Gershwin in Hollywood / Jessica Getman -- Profiles of the music. Blue Monday and New York theatrical aesthetics / Kristen M. Turner ; Broadway in blue : Gershwin's musical theatre scores and songs / Todd Decker ; The works for piano and orchestra / Timothy Freeze ; Harmonizing music and money : Gershwin's economic strategies from "Swanee" to An American in Paris / Mark Clague ; Exploring new worlds : An American in Paris, Cuban overture, and Porgy and Bess / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Complexities in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess : historical and performing contexts / Naomi Andre ; Writing for the big screen : Shall we dance and a Damsel in distress / Nathan Platte -- Influence and reception. The coverage of Gershwin in music history texts / Howard Pollack ; When Ella Fitzgerald sang Gershwin : a chapter from the Great American Songbook / Will Friedwald ; The afterlife of Rhapsody in blue / Ryan Raul Banagale. ; Broadways' "new" Gershwin musicals : romance, jazz, and the ghost of Fred Astaire / Todd Decker ; Gershwin and instrumental jazz / Nate Sloan ; Epilogue : the Gershwin I knew, and the Gershwin I know / Michael Feinstein. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019011494 |
| ISBN | 9781108423533 alk. paper |
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