Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (254 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511793295
Content:
Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature. Combining detailed attention to the language and aesthetics of popular music with an examination of its early twentieth-century performance and dissemination through the new technologies of the radio and phonograph, Schleifer explores the 'popularity' of popular music in order to reconsider received and seeming self-evident truths about the differences between high art and popular art and, indeed, about twentieth-century modernism altogether
Content:
Introduction: popular music and the experience of modernism -- Part I. Musical Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz: 1. Classical modernity and popular music; 2. Twentieth-century modernism and 'jazz' music -- Part II. Gershwin, Porter, Waller, and Holiday: 3. Melting pot and meeting place: the Gershwin brothers and the arts of quotation; 4. 'What is this thing called love?': Cole Porter and the rhythms of desire; 5. Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazz; 6. Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performance -- Conclusion: popular music and the revolution of the word
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107005051
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107655300
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schleifer, Ronald, 1948 - Modernism and popular music Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 1107005051
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107005051
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107005051
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Moderne
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Unterhaltungsmusik
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511793295
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