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What will I be : American music and Cold War identity /

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation. Central to the era was the rise of the concept of identity, and with it a reformulation of the country's political life during the early Cold War. At the same time, a revolution in music was...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gentry, Philip (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Music and identity : a postwar genealogy
  • Singing smoothly : masculinity in early doo-wop
  • The blonde who knew too much : the whiteness of Doris Day
  • This promise of paradise : identity and performance in the Pacific theater
  • Making sense of silence : John Cage's queer avant-garde
  • Epilogue : the practice of identity.