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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Modernism and popular music
  name:
    name part: Schleifer, Ronald.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xx, 233 pages : illustrations, music.
  abstract: "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: Machine generated contents note: 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.
  note: Ronald Schleifer.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gershwin, George
      name part: 1898-1937
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Holiday, Billie
      name part: 1915-1959
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Porter, Cole
      name part: 1891-1964
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Waller, Fats
      name part: 1904-1943
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Music)
  subject:
    topic: Popular music
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Jazz
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: ML3477 .S35 2011eb
  classification: 781.6409/041
  identifier: 9781107005051 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781139091213 (e-book)
  identifier: 2011008369
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 110223
    record change date: 20250816210846.3
    record identifier: in00002710552