Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Imprint) - Hardcover

Garrett, Charles Hiroshi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520254864 ISBN 13: 9780520254862

Verlag: University of California Press, 2008

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Book by Garrett Charles Hiroshi

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"Essential."--Choice "Intriguing and provocative."--Classical Music Magazine

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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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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520254864
• ISBN 13: 9780520254862
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312