Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century

Publication Data

• Title Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century
• Author Charles Hiroshi Garrett
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Berkeley, Calif.
• Language English

Contents

Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music
Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge
Louis Armstrong and the great migration
Chinatown, whose Chinatown?: defining America's borders with musical orientalism
Sounds of paradise: Hawai'i and the American musical imagination
Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new century.

Topics

• Music :: United States :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• 014668509

Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. ISBN 9780520254879. Published by University of California Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.