Book contents
- Duke Ellington Studies
- Duke Ellington Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Reference Abbreviations
- 1 Ellington the Entertainer: Pageantry and Prophecy in Duke Ellington's Films
- 2 Marketing to the Middlebrow: Reconsidering Ellingtonia, the Legacy of Early Ellington Criticism, and the Idea of a “Serious” Jazz Composer
- 3 “Art or Debauchery?”: The Reception of Ellington in the U.K.
- 4 “Nobody Was Looking”: The Unparalleled Jazz Piano Legacy of Duke Ellington
- 5 “People Wrap Their Lunches in Them”: Duke Ellington and His Written Music Manuscripts
- 6 The Moor's Revenge: The Politics of Such Sweet Thunder
- 7 Duke Ellington in the LP Era
- 8 Authentic Synthetic Hybrid: Ellington's Concepts of Africa and Its Music
- 9 “The Mother of All Albums”: Revisiting Ellington's A Drum Is a Woman
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
- Duke Ellington Studies
- Duke Ellington Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Reference Abbreviations
- 1 Ellington the Entertainer: Pageantry and Prophecy in Duke Ellington's Films
- 2 Marketing to the Middlebrow: Reconsidering Ellingtonia, the Legacy of Early Ellington Criticism, and the Idea of a “Serious” Jazz Composer
- 3 “Art or Debauchery?”: The Reception of Ellington in the U.K.
- 4 “Nobody Was Looking”: The Unparalleled Jazz Piano Legacy of Duke Ellington
- 5 “People Wrap Their Lunches in Them”: Duke Ellington and His Written Music Manuscripts
- 6 The Moor's Revenge: The Politics of Such Sweet Thunder
- 7 Duke Ellington in the LP Era
- 8 Authentic Synthetic Hybrid: Ellington's Concepts of Africa and Its Music
- 9 “The Mother of All Albums”: Revisiting Ellington's A Drum Is a Woman
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Duke Ellington Studies , pp. xv - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017