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Struggling to Define a Nation : American Music and the Twentieth Century / Charles Hiroshi Garrett.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrett, Charles Hiroshi, 1966-2024, Author.
- Series:
- Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint.
- Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism in music.
- Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Charles Ives'S Four Ragtime Dances And "True American Music"
- 2. Jelly Roll Morton And The Spanish Tinge
- 3. Louis Armstrong And The Great Migration
- 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America'S Borders With Musical Orientalism
- 5. Sounds Of Paradise: Hawai'i And The American Musical Imagination
- Conclusion: American Music At The Turn Of A New Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612360831
- 9781282360839
- 1282360833
- 9780520942820
- 0520942825
- OCLC:
- 574293446
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