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Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

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"Essential." -- S. C. Pelkey Choice "Intriguing and provocative." -- Michael Quinn Classical Music Magazine

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and "True American Music" 17 2. Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge 48 3. Louis Armstrong and the Great Migration 83 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism 121 5. Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination 165 Conclusion: American Music at the Turn of a New Century 215 Notes 223 Bibliography 259 Index

Struggling to Define a Nation

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/10/2008
      ISBN13: 9780520254879, 978-0520254879
      ISBN10: 0520254872
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.

      Trade Review
      "Essential." -- S. C. Pelkey Choice "Intriguing and provocative." -- Michael Quinn Classical Music Magazine

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and "True American Music" 17 2. Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge 48 3. Louis Armstrong and the Great Migration 83 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism 121 5. Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination 165 Conclusion: American Music at the Turn of a New Century 215 Notes 223 Bibliography 259 Index

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