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The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture /

'The Great American Songbooks' shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graham, T. Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Modernist literature & culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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