02802nam 2200613 a 450 991078832350332120230803032523.00-8173-8676-9(CKB)3170000000060496(EBL)1273593(SSID)ssj0000918673(PQKBManifestationID)11480974(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918673(PQKBWorkID)10908282(PQKB)10268665(MiAaPQ)EBC1273593(OCoLC)852759291(MdBmJHUP)muse25335(Au-PeEL)EBL1273593(CaPaEBR)ebr10745088(EXLCZ)99317000000006049620130208d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSounding real[electronic resource] musicality and American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century /Cristina L. RuotoloTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (183 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1798-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Not just looking: Sister Carrie's musical economy -- Listening to women playing Chopin -- Opera's "impossible country": figuring the American diva -- James Weldon Johnson's ex-colored musician -- Fictions of the American music critic -- Epilogue.Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century. Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical standards and tastes in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and the way they are reflected in American literature of the period. Whereas other interdisciplinary approaches to music and literature often focus on more recent popular music and black music thaAmer Lit Realism & NaturalismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMusic and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMusic in literatureMusicians in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Music and literatureHistoryMusic in literature.Musicians in literature.813/.5093578Ruotolo Cristina L.1963-1513227MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788323503321Sounding real3747545UNINA