Ebook: Music and politics in San Francisco: from the 1906 quake to the Second World War

The Paris of the West : San Francisco at the turn of the century -- From the quake to the crash -- The politics of class : the San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the lure of European culture (1911-1930) -- The politics of race : Chinatown, forbidden and alluring -- Interlude 1 : two musical tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown -- The politics of labor : the union(s), the clubs and theaters, and the predicament of black musicians -- Musical utopias : Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory -- Opera : the people's music or a diversion for the rich? -- The Depression and beyond -- The despair of the Depression and the clash of race -- Ultramodernism and other contemporary offerings : looking west, challenging the East -- The politics of work : idealism confronts bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project -- Interlude 2 : highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project : take your choice and keeton's concert spirituals -- Welcoming the world : San Francisco's fairs of 1915 and 1939?-1940 -- Aftermath.