Sounds of reform
Subtitle: progressivism and music in Chicago, 1873-1935
By: Derek Vaillant
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Music -- Political aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago; Progressivism (United States politics); Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- To 1950
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-390) and index
Table of contents: title: Preludes of reform : the Chicago Jubilee, Thomas "summer nights" concerts, and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; title: Battle for the baton : ceremonial parks and the landscape of musical reform, 1869-1904; title: I was improvising right from the start : musical progressivism at Hull House, 1889-1919; title: Come over here and listen to the music : municipal power and local authority in the field house parks, 1903-1919; title: Music of the people is music of the world : the Civic Music Association and the racial challenges of World War I and its aftermath, 1912-1919; title: They whirl off the edges of a decent life : unmasking difference at the dance, 1904-1933; title: Sounds of whiteness : urban musical subcultures, race, and the public interest on   Chicago airwaves, 1921-1935; title: Sound Americans : echoes of reform from the 1930s to the present