LEADER 03865nam 2200661 450 001 9910460909303321 005 20210510220217.0 010 $a0-8047-9539-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804795395 035 $a(CKB)3710000000450661 035 $a(EBL)3568965 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001531724 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12639625 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001531724 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11463583 035 $a(PQKB)11217289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3568965 035 $a(DE-B1597)564230 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804795395 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3568965 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11085707 035 $a(OCoLC)932322731 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768800 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000450661 100 $a20150814h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn American cakewalk $eten syncopators of the modern world /$fZeese Papanikolas 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-9199-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Ghost Dance --$tChapter 2. Valentines --$tChapter 3. Cakewalk --$tChapter 4. Monsters --$tChapter 5. The Soul Shepherd --$tChapter 6. The Return of the Novelist --$tChapter 7. An Innocent at Cedro --$tChapter 8. The Rise of Abraham Cahan --$tChapter 9. Beyond Syncopation --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tSource Acknowledgments --$tNotes for Further Reading --$tName Index 330 $aThe profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless new world of railroads, factories, and skyscrapers where old assumptions were being challenged and new values had yet to be created. In An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World, Zeese Papanikolas tells the lively and entertaining story of a diverse group of figures in the arts and sciences who inhabited this new America. Just as ragtime composers subverted musical expectations by combining European march timing with African syncopation, so this book's protagonists?who range from Emily Dickinson to Thorstein Veblen and from Henry and William James to Charles Mingus?interrogated the modern American world through their own "syncopations" of cultural givens. The old antebellum slave dance, the cakewalk, with its parody of the manners and pretensions of the white folks in the Big House, provides a template of how the tricksters, shamans, poets, philosophers, ragtime pianists, and jazz musicians who inhabit this book used the arts of parody, satire, and disguise to subvert American cultural norms and to create new works of astonishing beauty and intellectual vigor. 606 $aAuthors, American$vBiography 606 $aArtists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aIntellectuals$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aArtists 615 0$aIntellectuals 676 $a973.5 700 $aPapanikolas$b Zeese$01044036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460909303321 996 $aAn American cakewalk$92469416 997 $aUNINA