W. Anthony Sheppard, Lisa Conathan, Stephanie Doktor, Christi J. Wells, John Howland

Beyond the Bandstand

Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture
Herausgeber: Sheppard, W. Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

"The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a who's who of artists toward prominence. But Whiteman's oversized presence eclipsed Black jazz musicians while his middlebrow music prompted later generations to jettison him from jazz history"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780252046100
• ISBN-10: 0252046102
• Artikelnr.: 71267958

Autorenporträt

Edited by W. Anthony Sheppard

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Paul Whiteman Collection at Williams College  Lisa Conathan
Introduction: Naming and Placing Whiteman  W. Anthony Sheppard
1. Black Music, White Bodies, Paul Whiteman’s Body  Stephanie Doktor
2. Paul Whiteman, Cultural Ownership, and Jazz Historiography in Dave
Peyton’s “The Musical Bunch”  Christi Jay Wells
3. Paul Whiteman and Modern Metropolitan Music, 1927–1940  John Howland
4. Arranging Orientalism for Whiteman  Ryan Raul Bañagale
5. Concertized Jazz: The Divergent Motives of Whiteman (1924) and
Goodman (1938)  Sarah Caissie Provost
6. “Symphonised Syncopation”: Paul Whiteman in the United Kingdom and
Europe in the 1920s  Catherine Tackley
7. RCA v. Whiteman and the Case for Radio Broadcast Rights  Katherine M.
Leo
8. Integration and Segregation in Whiteman’s Music Television,
1948–1955  W. Anthony Sheppard
9. Afterword  Elijah Wald
Contributors
Bibliography
Index