Title The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture / T. Austin Graham.

Publication Info.	New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Modernist literature and culture
	Modernist literature & culture.
Contents	Musical literature, its theory and practice -- Songs not in thy songs: musical forms and American free verse -- The literary soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's heard and unheard melodies -- Make them black and bid them sing: musical poetics, racial transformation, and the Harlem renaissance -- "Got over": the chorus girl novel and the musical stage -- The bridge: motifs in contemporary musical fiction.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	'The Great American Songbooks' shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Music in literature.
	Songbooks, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Music, Influence of.
	Sheet music -- United States -- History.
	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
	Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
	Music in literature. (OCoLC)fst01030552
	Music, Influence of. (OCoLC)fst01030670
	Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
	Sheet music. (OCoLC)fst01202489
	Songbooks, English. (OCoLC)fst01126081
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Graham, T. Austin. Great American songbooks. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199862115 (DLC) 2012032582 (OCoLC)805051810
ISBN	0199332746 (electronic bk.)
	9780199332748 (electronic bk.)
	9780199862122 (electronic bk.)
	0199862125 (electronic bk.)

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