The great American songbooks musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture
Title:
The great American songbooks musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture
Author:
Graham, T. Austin.
ISBN:
9780199332748
9780199862122
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Modernist literature and culture
Modernist literature & culture.
Contents:
Musical literature, its theory and practice -- Songs not in thy songs: musical forms and American free verse -- The literary soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's heard and unheard melodies -- Make them black and bid them sing: musical poetics, racial transformation, and the Harlem renaissance -- "Got over": the chorus girl novel and the musical stage -- The bridge: motifs in contemporary musical fiction.
Abstract:
'The Great American Songbooks' shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century.
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