Modernism and Popular Music
- Author: Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107655300
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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.
Read more- An exemplary example of interdisciplinary studies between literary criticism and musicology
- The first discussion of a 'modernist' aesthetics of popular music
- The first book-length study to analyze the lyrics of popular music in the manner of examining canonical poetry
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107655300
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 15 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Postscript: popular music and the revolution of the word
Bibliography
Index.
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