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9781107005051

Modernism and Popular Music

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    9781107005051

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    1107005051

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. viii
Prefacep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xvii
Introduction: Popular music and the experience of modernismp. 1
Music Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz
Classical modernity and popular musicp. 29
Twentieth-century modernism and ôjazzö musicp. 54
Gershwin, Porter, Waller, and Holiday
Melting pot and meeting place: the Gershwin brothers and the arts of quotationp. 81
ôWhat is this thing called love?ö: Cole Porter and the rhythms of desirep. 110
Signifying music: Fats Waller and the time of jazzp. 133
Music without composition: Billie Holiday and ensemble performancep. 155
Conclusion: popular music and the revolution of the wordp. 176
Notesp. 180
Bibliographyp. 216
Indexp. 226
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