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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788494003321

Autore

Rubin Joan Shelley <1947->

Titolo

Cultural considerations : essays on readers, writers, and musicians in postwar America / / Joan Shelley Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61376-262-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/0054

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Cultural History in Practice; Part I: Readers & Critics; 1. The Genteel Tradition at Large; 2. The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America; 3. Repossessing the Cozzens-Macdonald Imbroglio: Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America; Part II: Composers, Conductors & Their Audiences; 4. The Composer as a Reader: Poetry, Music, and the Politics of a Neglected Genre; 5. Ideology and Practice in the Career of Robert Shaw

6. Gunther Schuller: The Musician as MediatorConclusion: The Enduring Reader; Notes; Index; About the Author; Back Cover