Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century
ISBN-10
0520254864
ISBN-13
9780520254862
Category
Music
Pages
291
Language
English
Published
2008-10-12
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Description

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 Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

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