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Author:   Anna Harwell Celenza (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781108437646

ISBN 10:   1108437648
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   22 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Historical Context: 1. The unlikely patriarch Michael Owen; 2. Hearing Gershwin's New York Ellen Noonan; 3. Gershwin's musical education Susan Neimoyer; 4. Gershwin in Hollywood Jessica Getman; Part II. Profiles of the Music: 5. Blue Monday and New York theatrical aesthetics Kristen M. Turner; 6. Broadway in blue: Gershwin's musical theatre scores and songs Todd Decker; 7. The works for piano and orchestra Timothy Freeze; 8. Harmonizing music and money: Gershwin's economic strategies from 'Swanee' to An American in Paris Mark Clague; 9. Exploring new worlds: An American in Paris, Cuban Overture and Porgy and Bess Anna Harwell Celenza; 10. Complexities in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: historical and performing contexts Naomi André; 11. Writing for the big screen: Shall We Dance and A Damsel in Distress Nathan Platte; Part III. Influence and Reception: 12. The coverage of Gershwin in music history text Howard Pollack; 13. When Ella Fitzgerald sang Gershwin: a chapter from the Great American Songbook Will Friedwald; 14. The afterlife of Rhapsody in Blue Ryan Raul Bañagale; 15. Broadway's 'new' Gershwin musicals: romance, jazz, and the ghost of Fred Astaire Todd Decker; 16. Gershwin and instrumental jazz Nate Sloan; Epilogue: the Gershwin I knew, and the Gershwin I know Michael Feinstein.

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'... a worthwhile addition to the ever-growing body of Gershwin studies.' Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone '... a worthwhile addition to the ever-growing body of Gershwin studies.' Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone

Author Information

Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University, where she also serves as core faculty in the American Studies Program. She is the author/editor of many scholarly books, including the award-winning Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra (Cambridge, 2017).  She has published numerous articles on a range of composers, from Franz Liszt and Gustav Mahler to Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Louis Armstrong.

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