Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States

It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got Those Strings:

Sonya Lawson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032804293 (ISBN)

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Bowed Strings in 20th-Century Jazz in the United States serves as a historical examination of the roles of bowed strings (violin, viola, and cello) in jazz. The subject of bowed strings in jazz has garnered considerable interest, evident in the swell of pedagogical materials published in the last decade, the proliferation of college programs incorporating alternative styles for strings, the increasing number of jazz groups featuring improvising string players, and the abundance of articles, both biographical and historical, on bowed strings in jazz.

Sequentially, this book discusses the roles of violin, viola, cello, string quartets, and miscellaneous groupings of strings in various contexts. The discussion progresses from specific instruments and players to chamber groups and then ensembles of a variety of sizes.

This book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in the musical study of Jazz in the United States.

Sonya R. Lawson holds a Ph.D. in Music History with a Supporting Area in Viola Performance from the University of Oregon, and a M.M in Viola Performance from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation presented a history of strings in jazz, and other research interests are cognitive musicology and innovations in music history pedagogy. Dr. Lawson was Principal Violist of the Tennessee Philharmonic, Assistant Principal of the Cheyenne Symphony, and has played in many orchestras. As a member of The Knotty Ensemble avant-garde chamber group, she has released two CDs on the Third Rail label.

Introduction

Chapter 1 Smith faces South and an Anything-but-Average Joe: Violins in Jazz, 1900-1950

Chapter 2 Saxes and Violins: Violins in Jazz, 1950-2000

Chapter 3 This Ain’t No Viola Joke

Chapter 4 Jazz Cellobration

Chapter 5 Alone Together: Stand-Alone Jazz String Quartets

Chapter 6 String Theory, or, Creative Chaos: Eclectic Groups Including Bowed Strings

Bibliography

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.10.2027
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-13	9781032804293 / 9781032804293
Zustand	Neuware