Struggling to Define a Nation : American Music and the Twentieth Century PDF
by Charles Hiroshi Garrett
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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.
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- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:12/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780520942820
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:12/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520942820