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Struggling to Define a Nation : American Music and the Twentieth Century /
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly R...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.