Front cover image for Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century

Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nationcaptures 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.(Source of review not specified as of September 2020.)
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780520254862, 9780520254879, 0520254864, 0520254872
219568840
Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music
Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge
Louis Armstrong and the great migration
Chinatown, whose Chinatown? Defining America's borders with musical orientalism
Sounds of paradise: Hawai'i and the American musical imagination
Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new century
"Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint."
books.google.com Additional Information at Google Books
hdl.handle.net Available from ACLS Humanities: Rutgers restricted
hdl.handle.net Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required: