Highbrow/lowdown - Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

Klappentext Explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theatre into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. Jazz was much more than the music - it was also a powerful cultural force that brought African American, Jewish, and working-class culture into the white Protestant mainstream. Zusammenfassung The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

Product details

• Authors: David Savran, David (Brown University City University of Savran, David (City University of New York) Savran
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2010
• EAN: 9780472034451
• ISBN: 978-0-472-03445-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet