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Modernism and Popular Music (Hardcover)
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Modernism and Popular Music (Hardcover)
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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.
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