The Great American Songbooks Musical Texts Modernism and the Value of Popular Culture 1st Edition by Austin Graham 0199862122 9780199862122

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ISBN-13 :  9780199862122

Author:  T. Austin Graham 

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading became anything but. The Great American Songbooks is the story of this literature, at once an overview of musical and authorial practice at the century’s turn, an investigation into the sensory dimensions of reading, and a meditation on the effects that the popular arts have had on literary modernism. The writings of John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Walt Whitman are heard in a new key; the performers and tunesmiths who inspired them have their stories told; and the music of the past, long out of print and fashion, is recapitulated and made available in digital form. A work of criticism situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, musicology, and cultural history, The Great American Songbooks demonstrates the importance of studying fiction and poetry from interdisciplinary perspectives, and it suggests new avenues for research in the dawning age of the digital humanities.

The Great American Songbooks Musical Texts Modernism and the Value of Popular Culture 1st Table of contents:

1. Musical Literature, Its Theory and Practice
Writing about Music
Listening to Books
Valuing Popular Culture
2. Songs Not in Thy Songs: Musical Forms and American Free Verse
Songs Awaked: Leaves of Grass
One Definite False Note: Eliot’s Early Poetry and The Waste Land
Beneath the Jazz: Linking Transcendentalism and Modernism
3. The Literary Soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Heard and Unheard Melodies
Riotous Mystery: This Side of Paradise
What You’d Call Cheapness: The Beautiful and Damned
Never Again: The Great Gatsby
4. Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musical Poetry, Racial Transformation, and the Harlem Renaissa
O Cant: Cane
Overtones, Undertones: The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew
Many-Colored Variations: The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance
5. “Got Over”: The Chorus Girl Novel and the Musical Stage
The Belle of New York: Sister Carrie
A Birrd in a Geelded Cage: Manhattan Transfer
The Same Old Hokum: U.S.A. and Beyond
Coda. The Bridge: Motifs in Contemporary Musical Fiction

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