Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century / Charles Hiroshi Garrett.
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nationcaptures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres--including art mus...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
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| Summary: | Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nationcaptures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres--including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music--and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound. |
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| Item Description: | "Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint." |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520254862 0520254864 9780520254879 0520254872 |