| Description |
xvii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Modernist literature and culture
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Modernist literature & culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Musical literature, its theory and practice -- Songs not in thy songs : musical forms and American free verse -- The literary soundtrack : F. Scott Fitzgerald's heard and unheard melodies -- Make them black and bid them sing : musical poetics, racial transformation, and the Harlem renaissance -- "Got over" : the chorus girl novel and the musical stage -- The bridge : motifs in contemporary musical fiction. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music in literature.
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Music in literature. |
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Songbooks, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Songbooks, English. |
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United States. |
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Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Music, Influence of.
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Sheet music -- United States -- History.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Music, Influence of. |
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Literatur. |
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Sheet music. |
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Musik. |
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History. |
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Modernismus. |
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Modernism (Literature) |
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USA. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Notated music.
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Notated music.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780199862115 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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0199862117 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780199967384 |
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0199967385 |
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9780199862122 |
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0199862125 |
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