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

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520254879)

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

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century

$34.95
Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century by Garrett, Charles Hiroshi

Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
ISBN-10: 0520254872
ISBN-13: 9780520254879
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2008
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.20w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/19/2008 pg. 22
Choice 01/01/2009
By Charles Hiroshi Garrett
By Charles Hiroshi Garrett
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Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He is Editor in Chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition.

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