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Sweet air :

(Number (ISBN

0252037391

(Number (ISBN

0252078926

(Number (ISBN

9780252037399

(Number (ISBN

9780252078927

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Sweet air :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

modernism, regionalism, and American popular song /

First Statement of Responsibility

Edward P. Comentale.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 274 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Music in American life

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: From a basement on Long Island to a mansion on the hill -- 1. Lord, it just won't stop! Work and blues in the industrial delta -- 2. Thought I had your heart forever: death, detachment, and the modernity of early country music -- 3. A rambling funny streak: Woody Guthrie, revoutionary folk song, and the migrant art of the refrain -- 4. Four Elvises: on the Dada possibilities of midcentury rock and roll and modern fan culture -- 5. () -- Notes -- Index.

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Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country, folk, and rockabilly in relation to the growth of industry and consumer culture, Edward P. Comentale shows how this music became a vital means of exploring the new and often overwhelming feelings brought on by modern life. Comentale examines these rural genres as they translated the traumas of local experience--the racial violence of the Delta, the mass exodus from the South, the Dust Bowl of the Texas panhandle--into sonic form. Considering the accessibility of these popular music forms, he asserts the value of music as a source of progressive cultural investment, linking poor, rural performers and audiences to an increasingly vast network of commerce, transportation, and technology [Publisher description].

Popular music-- Social aspects-- United States-- History.

Popular music-- United States-- History and criticism.

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Book number

Comentale, Edward P.

Date of Transaction

20160516092837.0

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[Book]

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