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TY - CHAP
T1 - Crossing Borders I
T2 - the historical context for Ravel’s North American tour
AU - Gebhardt, Nicholas
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - Through a close analysis of Ravel’s 1928 tour of the United States, this essay explores the social context in which the first generation of modernist composers from Europe engaged with North American popular music. Gebhardt argues that Ravel's integration of these musical styles into his own practice, particularly the syncopated dance music of ragtime and jazz, cannot be studied apart from the mass response he and other European composers received in the United States and the social conditions which made such a response possible. Central to the reception of European artists was the growing status and importance of the entertainment industry, which ensured the success of Ravel’s tour, but also produced a series of counter-movements or cultural reversals amongst performers, composers and audiences. The purpose of this chapter is to examine Ravel’s tour in terms of these transformations and consider its significance for clarifying the meaning of musical modernism.
AB - Through a close analysis of Ravel’s 1928 tour of the United States, this essay explores the social context in which the first generation of modernist composers from Europe engaged with North American popular music. Gebhardt argues that Ravel's integration of these musical styles into his own practice, particularly the syncopated dance music of ragtime and jazz, cannot be studied apart from the mass response he and other European composers received in the United States and the social conditions which made such a response possible. Central to the reception of European artists was the growing status and importance of the entertainment industry, which ensured the success of Ravel’s tour, but also produced a series of counter-movements or cultural reversals amongst performers, composers and audiences. The purpose of this chapter is to examine Ravel’s tour in terms of these transformations and consider its significance for clarifying the meaning of musical modernism.
KW - Ravel
KW - United States
KW - Music Industry
KW - Modernism
KW - Cultural History
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780521886970
SP - 92
EP - 113
BT - Ravel Studies
A2 - Mawer, Deborah
PB - University of Cambridge
CY - Cambridge
ER -