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Author:

Tackley, Catherine.

Title:

Benny Goodman's famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert / Catherine Tackley.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

©2012

Description:

xviii, 223 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Goodman, Benny,--1909-1986--Performances--New York.--New York.
Goodman, Benny,--1909-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)
Goodman, Benny,--1909-1986.
Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)
Goodman, Benny,--1909-1986.
Goodman, Benny,--(1909-1986)--Performances--New York.--New York.
Goodman, Benny,--(1909-1986)--Criticism and interpretation.
Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)
Jazz--New York--New York--1931-1940--History and criticism.
Jazz.
Performances.
New York (State)--New York.
Jazzkonzert.
Carnegie Hall.
Jazz--New York--New York--1931-1940--History and criticism.
1931-1940
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-205), discography (p. 206-214) , and index.

Contents:

1. Context -- Precedents: jazz concerts and audiences -- Promotion -- Program -- 2. Performance -- The orchestra -- "Twenty years of jazz" -- "Jam session" -- Trio and quartet -- Conclusion -- 3. Representation -- Repercussions -- Recording -- Reception -- Re-creation.

Summary:

"On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars"--Publisher's description.

Series:

Oxford studies in recorded jazz

ISBN:

0195398319
9780195398311
0195398300
9780195398304

OCLC:

(OCoLC)743214188

LCCN:

2011030910

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)