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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Hiroshi Garrett |
ISBN: | 9780520254862 0520254864 9780520254879 0520254872 |
OCLC Number: | 219568840 |
Notes: | "Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint." |
Description: | xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint. |
Responsibility: | Charles Hiroshi Garrett. |
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Abstract:
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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