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Debussy Redux: The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture
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Debussy Redux: The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture Hardcover - 2012

by Matthew G. Brown


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The works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) had a major impact on the music of the 20th century, influencing a range of figures from Ravel and Stravinsky to Henri Dutilleux and Toru Takemitsu. Less well known is Debussy's influence on the popular culture of the period. Matthew Brown shows how Debussy's music has surfaced in an array of contexts from the film music of the 1940s to the dance music of the 1990s. It is easy to see how Debussy's impressionist soundscapes for orchestra such as La Mer and Iberia could be perfect models for accompaniments to film scenes, but as Brown makes clear Debussy's music and influence cannot by reduced to dreamy imitations of Clair de Lune. As he traces the trajectory of Debussy's stylistic evolution, Brown shows how facets of this style were reinterpreted in a surprising variety of popular musical contexts.

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  • Title Debussy Redux: The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture
  • Author Matthew G. Brown
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
  • Date 2012-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780253357168 / 0253357160
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture music - History and criticism, Popular music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011028384
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.92

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About the author

Matthew Brown is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He is the author of Explaining Tonality, Debussy's Iberia, and articles in Integral, Music Theory Spectrum, Understanding Rock, and Journal of Musicology, among others.

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