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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
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Table of Contents:
- Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music
- Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge
- Louis Armstrong and the great migration
- Chinatown, whose Chinatown? Defining America's borders with musical orientalism
- Sounds of paradise: Hawai'i and the American musical imagination
- Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new century.