The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture / T. Austin Graham.

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Graham, T. Austin

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0199332746
9780199332748
9780199862122
0199862125

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Great American songbooks.DDC classification:

810.9/3578 23

LOC classification:

PS228.M87 G73 2013

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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.

Summary: '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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'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.

English.

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