Struggling to define a nation American music and the twentieth century / [electronic resource] :
Charles Hiroshi Garrett.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- xiv, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint .
- Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index.
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.
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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--History and criticism.--United States--20th century