Music and politics in San Francisco
Subtitle: from the 1906 quake to the Second World War
By: Leta E. Miller
Series: California studies in 20th-century music -- 13; California studies in 20th-century music -- 13.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780520268913
Subjects: Music; History
Notes: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Paris of the West : San Francisco at the turn of the century; title: From the quake to the crash; title: The politics of class : the San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the lure of European culture (1911-1930); title: The politics of race : Chinatown, forbidden and alluring; title: Interlude 1 : two musical tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown; title: The politics of labor : the union(s), the clubs and theaters, and the predicament of black musicians; title: Musical utopias : Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory; title: Opera : the people's music or a diversion for the rich?; title: The Depression and beyond; title: The despair of the Depression and the clash of race; title: Ultramodernism and other contemporary offerings : looking west, challenging the East; title: The politics of work : idealism confronts bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project; title: Interlude 2 : highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project : take your choice and keeton's concert spirituals; title: Welcoming the world : San Francisco's fairs of 1915 and 1939?-1940; title: Aftermath.