The Great American Songbooks - Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture

Zusatztext [This book] revives an important debate about the cultural value of musical modernism, and offers its readers not only a distinctive thesis, but a distinctive soundtrack to accompany its deft articulation. Informationen zum Autor T. Austin Graham is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Klappentext The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Zusammenfassung The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ; A Note on Audio ; Series Editors' Foreword ; 1. Musical Literature! Its Theory and Practice ; Writing About Music ; Listening to Books ; Valuing Popular Culture ; 2. Songs Not In Thy Songs: Musical Forms and American Free Verse ; Leaves of Grass ; Eliot's Early Poetry and The Waste Land ; Linking Transcendentalism and Modernism ; 3. The Literary Soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Heard and Unheard Melodies ; This Side of Paradise ; The Beautiful and Damned ; The Great Gatsby ; 4. Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musical Poetics! Racial Transformation! and the Harlem Renaissance ; Cane ; The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew ; The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance ; 5. "Got Over": The Chorus Girl Novel and the Musical Stage ; Sister Carrie ; Manhattan Transfer ; U.S.A. and Beyond ; 6. The Bridge: Motifs in Contemporary Musical Fiction ; Bibliography ; Audio Guide ; Index

Product details

• Authors: T. Austin Graham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199862115
• ISBN: 978-0-19-986211-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General