The Resource Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century, Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century, Charles Hiroshi Garrett
- Summary
- Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nationcaptures 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780520942820
- Label
- Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century
- Title
- Struggling to define a nation
- Title remainder
- American music and the twentieth century
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Hiroshi Garrett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nationcaptures 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML200.5
- LC item number
- .G37 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Label
- Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century, Charles Hiroshi Garrett
- Link
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- 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
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520942820
- Isbn Type
- (e-book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
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