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Index
Half title page
Cambridge Companions to Music
Frontispiece
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Duke Ellington chronology
Editor’s introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism
Part I Ellington in context
1 Artful entertainment: Ellington’s formative years in context
2 The process of becoming: composition and recomposition
3 Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew
4 Ellington abroad
5 Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon
Part II Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
6 Ellington’s Afro-Modernist vision in the 1920s
7 Survival, adaptation, and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s
8 The 1940s: the Blanton-Webster band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era
9 Duke in the 1950s: renaissance man
10 Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s: triumph and tragedy
Part III Ellington and the jazz tradition
11 Ellington and the blues
12 “Seldom seen, but always heard”: Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington
13 Duke Ellington and the world of jazz piano
14 Duke and descriptive music
15 Sing a song of Ellington; or, the accidental songwriter
16 The land of suites: Ellington and extended form
17 Duke Ellington’s legacy and influence
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