Jazz & the Germans : essays on the influence of "hot" American idioms on the 20th-century German music / Michael J. Budds, editor.

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[2002], ©2002
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Jazz and the Germans

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Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, [2002], ©2002.

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xiv, 213 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.

Contents

The new world enriches the old / Michael J. Budd -- Jonny's jazz: from Kabarett to Krenek / Alan Lareau -- Jazz leaves home: the dissemination of "hot" music to central Europe / Frank Tirro -- European perceptions of ragtime: Hindemith and Stravinsky / E. Douglas Bomberger -- American popular music in Weill's Royal place and Krenek's Jonny spielt auf: influences and usage / Dane Heuchemer -- East meets West: contributions of Mátyás Seiber to jazz in Germany / Kathryn Smith Bowers -- Hanns Eisler: jazz as a weapon / Joachim Lucchesi -- Controlling degenerate music: jazz in the Third Reich / David Snowball -- The evolution of jazz culture in Frankfurt: a memoir / Carlo Böhlander -- The influence of American music on a German composer / Heinz Werner Zimmermann.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Works list and discography of works by Heinz Werner Zimmermann: p. 194-201.

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