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Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century
Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.
312 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 tables, 20 music examples
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 12, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520254879 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 20 mm · 426 g |