TY  - GEN
AU  -  Garrett, Charles Hiroshi,
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Struggling to define a nation: American music and the twentieth century 
T2  -  Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint
PY  - 2008///
CY  -  Berkeley
PB  -  University of California Press
KW  -  Music
KW  -  United States
KW  -  20th century
KW  -  History and criticism
KW  -  Nationalism in music
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index;  Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music -- Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge -- Louis Armstrong and the great migr ation -- Chinatown, whose Chinatown? Defining America's borders with mu sical orientalism -- Sounds of paradise: Hawai'i and the American music al imagination -- Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new centu ry;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2014;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  Mode of a ccess: Intranet
N2  -  Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultur al critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genre s--including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music --and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll M orton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather t han a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveal s a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one adv ancing a different facet of American identity through sound
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31680
ER  -