Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America

Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America
Author: Marco Katz Montiel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137433337

Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics
Author: Pauline Fairclough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317005791

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.

Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America

Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America
Author: Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1992-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Chronologically following Nicholas Tawa's The Coming of Age of American Art Music, this new study stands on its own in examining the music of the most prominent American composers active in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Among them are Edgar Stillman Kelley, Frederick Shepherd Converse, Daniel Gregory Mason, Edgar Burlingame Hill, Mabel Daniels, Henry Hadley, Deems Taylor, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Henry Gilbert, Arthur Farwell, John Powell, Arthur Shepherd, Scott Joplin, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Marion Bauer, and John Alden Carpenter. Unjustly neglected by a later generation of critics interested in the avant-garde, this music deserves a hearing today and, in fact, increasingly is the subject of new recordings. Professor Tawa puts his exemplary research and analytical skills to work to determine what these composers accomplished, not what latter-day critics felt they should have accomplished. The attitudes, styles, and compositions are analyzed in cultural context. The period of 1900-1930 witnessed an intense debate on what constituted an American identity in music. Was it Anglo-Celtic, Amerindian, African-American, jazz, or the individual unconsciously expressing the American society he or she lived in? The changing world of music, the clash of beliefs and values, and the attempts at a musical reconciliation between old and new approaches to composition figure prominently in the discussion. Tawa concludes that if the present-day listener does not reject romantic music out of hand, he or she will find delight in much of this large body of skillful, meaningful compositions.

The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity

The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
Author: Raymond Knapp
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0691186200

The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discussions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991). The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.

Struggling to Define a Nation

Struggling to Define a Nation
Author: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-10-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520254864

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction

Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004500685

The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity construction across decades, spaces, social groups, and cultural contexts, covering a wide range of literary and musical genres.

The Music of Time

The Music of Time
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691218862

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Music, Words, and Nationalism

Music, Words, and Nationalism
Author: Javier Moreno-Luzón
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-01-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031416449

Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities. The volume shows that both the words and music of these works reveal a great deal about the defining features of a nation, its political and cultural history, and its self-perception. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach that provides a better understanding of the role of national anthems and songs in the expression of national identities and nationalistic goals. From this perspective, the relationship between hymns and political contexts, their own symbolic content (both literary and musical) and the role of specific hymns in the construction of national sentiments are surveyed.

Driving Women

Driving Women
Author: Deborah Clarke
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801886171

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