The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

by Jessica Getman, Kristen M. Turner, Susan Neimoyer, et al.

Book Overview

George Gershwin is often described as a quintessentially American composer. This Cambridge Companion explains why, engaging with the ways in which his music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests. As a composer and performer, Gershwin embraced technological advances and broke new ground in music business practices. In the decades preceding World War II, he captured the mechanistic pulse of modern life with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108423531
• ISBN13: 9781108423533
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"