Struggling to Define a Nation American Music and the Twentieth Century - A Roth Family Foundation Book on Music in America
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520254879 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 19 Sep 2008 |
DEWEY: | 780.9730904 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 306 |
Weight: | 426g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |