John Lewis and the Challenge of ""Real"" Black Music Coady Paperback 9780472053209

John Lewis and the Challenge of \""Real\"" Black MusicAuthor(s): Christopher Coady\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472053209, 978-0472053209\nSynopsis\nFor critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of Real Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the forms most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an arranger for Miles Daviss Birth of the Cool sessions to his leadership of the Modern Jazz Quartet, his tours of Europe, and his stewardship of the Lenox School of Jazz. Along the way Coady shows how Lewiss fusion works helped shore up a failing jazz industry in the wake of the 1940s big band decline, forging a new sound grounded in middle-class African American musical traditions. By taking into account the sociocultural milieu of the 1950s, Coady pr.