Struggling to Define a Nation : American Music and the Twentieth Century / / Charles Hiroshi Garrett

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247979003316
• Autore: Garrett Charles Hiroshi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-282-36083-3; 9786612360831; 0-520-94282-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Collana: Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
• Disciplina: 780.973/0904
• Soggetti: Nationalism in music; Music - United States - 20th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Charles Ives'S Four Ragtime Dances And "True American Music" -- 2. Jelly Roll Morton And The Spanish Tinge -- 3. Louis Armstrong And The Great Migration -- 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America'S Borders With Musical Orientalism -- 5. Sounds Of Paradise: Hawai'i And The American Musical Imagination -- Conclusion: American Music At The Turn Of A New Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.