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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 / T. Austin Graham.
Author
Graham, T. Austin.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

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Description
xvii, 293 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Modernist literature and culture
Uniform Title
Modernist literature & culture.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Music in literature
  • Songbooks, English > United States > History and criticism
  • Popular music > United States > History and criticism
  • Music, Influence of
  • Sheet music > United States > History
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 13-253
ISBN
  • 9780199862115
  • 0199862117
  • 9780199967384
  • 0199967385
  • 9780199862122
  • 0199862125
LCCN
2012032582
OCLC
805051810
Author
Graham, T. Austin.
Title
The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture / T. Austin Graham.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Series
Modernist literature and culture
Modernist literature & culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-253
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