(ePUB) Making the Scene by Alex Stewart – 9780520249547

Making the Scene
Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz
by Alex Stewart

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• ISBN: 9780520249547 (0520249542)
• Genres: jazz
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Format: paperback, 416 pages
• Language: english
• Release date: August 2, 2007
• Author: Alex Stewart

About The Book

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and ’40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began, they never really disappeared. Making the Scene challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the vital role of big bands in the ongoing development of jazz. Alex Stewart describes how jazz musicians have found big bands valuable. He explores the rich “rehearsal band” scene in New York and the rise of repertory orchestras. Making the Scene combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis, ethnic studies, and gender theory, dismantling stereotypical views of the big band.

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