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Struggling to define a nation: American music and the twentieth century
Charles Hiroshi Garrett
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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.
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1. Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and "True American Music" (page 17)
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2. Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge (page 48)
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3. Louis Armstrong and the Great Migration (page 83)
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4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism (page 121)
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5. Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination (page 165)
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Conclusion: American Music at the Turn of a New Century (page 215)
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Notes (page 223)
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Bibliography (page 259)
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Index (page 277)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AmS | 50.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2009): 163-164 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41287779 |
MAL | 93.2 (May 2012): 269-272 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41684188 |
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Published: c2008
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520254879 (paper)
- 9780520942820 (ebook)
- 9780520254862 (hardcover)