Modernist America - Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Informationen zum Autor Richard Pells is professor of history emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin! TX. Klappentext The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes! it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences. This title reveals how the American artists! novelists! composers! jazz musicians! and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas. Zusammenfassung The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes! it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences. This title reveals how the American artists! novelists! composers! jazz musicians! and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas.

About the author

Richard Pells is professor of history emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin, TX.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Pells, Richard H. Pells, Pells Richard
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2012
• EAN: 9780300181739
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18173-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas