Blue rhythm fantasy : big band jazz arranging in the swing era /
John Wriggle.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- Music in American life .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Business and politics : the landscape -- Ace race arranger : the Broadway music clinic -- Harlem on Broadway : nightclub and theater revues -- Theory and practice : the fundamentals -- Episode and interlude : Broadway modernism -- Futuristic ragtime : style and identity -- Heavy stuff : classics and concertos -- Give me some skin : novelty songs and ballads -- Jungle madness : jazz dance and exotic numbers.
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Big band music--History and criticism. Jazz--History and criticism.--1931-1940 Jazz--History and criticism.--1941-1950 Arrangement (Music)--History--20th century.