Struggling to Define a Nation American Music and the Twentieth Century

Name: Struggling to Define a Nation American Music and the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780520254879

ISBN-10: 0520254872

ISBN-13: 9780520254879

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

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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.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index