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.

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Graham, T. Austin
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Serier:Modernist literature & culture.
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