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Modernism and Popular Music
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Modernism and Popular Music
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ronald Schleifer
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:254 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Art and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
20th century and contemporary classical music |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781107655300
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| Classifications | Dewey:781.630904 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
15 Printed music items
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
2 January 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature. Combining detailed attention to the language and aesthetics of popular music with an examination of its early twentieth-century performance and dissemination through the new technologies of the radio and phonograph, Schleifer explores the 'popularity' of popular music in order to reconsider received and seeming self-evident truths about the differences between high art and popular art and, indeed, about twentieth-century modernism altogether.
Author Biography
Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.
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