The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture

The Resource The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture
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The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture
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musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture
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T. Austin Graham
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Language
eng
Summary
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading became anything but. The Great American Songbooks is the story of this literature, at once an overview of musical and authorial practice at the century's turn, an investigation into the sensory dimensions of reading, and a meditation on the effects that the popular arts have had on literary modernism. The writings of John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Walt Whitman are heard in a new key; the performers and tunesmiths who inspired them have their stories told; and the music of the past, long out of print and fashion, is recapitulated and made available in digital form. A work of criticism situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, musicology, and cultural history, The Great American Songbooks demonstrates the importance of studying fiction and poetry from interdisciplinary perspectives, and it suggests new avenues for research in the dawning age of the digital humanities. -- Book jacket
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DLC
Dewey number
810.9/3578
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS228.M87
LC item number
G73 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Modernist literature and culture
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