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Author Graham, T. Austin.

Title The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture / T. Austin Graham.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Modernist literature and culture
Modernist literature & culture.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 'The Great American Songbooks' shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century.
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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music in literature.
Music in literature.
Songbooks, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Songbooks, English.
United States.
Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
Music, Influence of.
Music, Influence of.
Sheet music -- United States -- History.
Sheet music.
History.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Modernism (Literature)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Graham, T. Austin. Great American songbooks. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199862115 (DLC) 2012032582 (OCoLC)805051810
ISBN 0199332746 (electronic book)
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