Struggling to define a nation
Subtitle: American music and the twentieth century
By: Charles Hiroshi Garrett.
Publisher: University of California Press; The Roth Family Foundation Music in American Endowment imprint
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780520254862; 9780520254879
Subjects: Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nationalism in music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music; title: Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge; title: Louis Armstrong and the great migration; title: Chinatown, whose Chinatown? : defining America's borders with musical orientalism; title: Sounds of paradise : Hawai'i and the American musical imagination; title: Conclusion : American music at the turn of a new century.