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Classic Chic - Music, Fashion, and Modernism (Paperback)
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Classic Chic - Music, Fashion, and Modernism (Paperback)
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 6
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"Mary E. Davis's "Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism" is a
fascinating study that draws together several strands of
international modernism in the first quarter of the twentieth
century. Focusing on trendsetting couturiers and magazines, she
reveals how fashion not only promoted modernist trends in music but
also identified those trends with a 'modern' upper-class lifestyle
as well as similar trends in the visual arts and ballet. Davis has
written a page-turner that talks about serious matters and adds to
the sum of our knowledge about early twentieth-century musical
culture."--Lynn Garafola, author of "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
"and "Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance"
"In "Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism," Mary Davis
examines the deep connections between music and other cultural
phenomena - especially fashion - in early 20th-century France. She
returns the music of Satie and Stravinsky to its native Parisian
habitat, which swarmed with fashion designers, trend-setting
collaborators, and the purveyors of taste who determined what at
any moment counted as 'chic.' (How dreadfully un-German!) "Classic
Chic" joins a very small number of books that both break new
scholarly ground and also appeal to general readers: in particular,
those willing to listen to "Gymnopedies" while flipping through the
pages of "Vanity Fair,""--Susan McClary, author of "Conventional
Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form"
""Classic Chic" is an original and fascinating exploration of the
surprising alliance of music and fashion in the early twentieth
century. Mary Davis has made an important contribution to our
understanding of modernism through a subtle analysis of
supposedly'frivolous and ephemeral' art forms."--Valerie Steele,
Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at Fashion Institute of
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