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

'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.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Graham, T. Austin
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Cyfres:Modernist literature & culture.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=596940
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.