French Music and Jazz in Conversation

Contents

• Introduction. French music and jazz: cultural exchange;
• Part I . Locations and Relations:
• 1. A historical-cultural overview;
• 2. Critical-analytical perspectives: intertextuality and borrowing;
• Part II . The Impact of Early Jazz upon French Music (1900-35):
• 3. Debussy and Satie: early French explorations of cakewalk and ragtime;
• 4. Milhaud's understanding of jazz and blues: La Creation du monde;
• 5. Crossing borders: Ravel's theory and practice of jazz;
• Part III . The Impact of French Music upon Jazz (1925-65):
• 6. Hylton's interwar 'jazzed' arrangements of French classics;
• 7. (Re)moving boundaries? Russell's Lydian jazz theory and its rethinking of Debussy and Ravel;
• 8. Bill Evans's modal jazz and French music reconfigured;
• 9. Milhaud and Brubeck: French classical teacher and American jazz student.