Ebook: Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century
Author: Garrett Charles Hiroshi
- Tags: Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Nationalism in music, Music, United States
- Series: Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint., ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley, United States.
- Language: English
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Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures 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 Read more...