Sweet Air : Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Music in American Life
ISBN-10
0252078926
ISBN-13
9780252078927
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2013
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
444 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.70 x 2.70 cms
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Rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms.
Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country, folk, and rockabilly in relation to the growth of industry and consumer culture, Edward P. Comentale shows how this music became a vital means of exploring the new and often overwhelming feelings brought on by modern life. Comentale examines these rural genres as they translated the traumas of local experience--the racial violence of the Delta, the mass exodus from the South, the Dust Bowl of the Texas panhandle--into sonic form. Considering the accessibility of these popular music forms, he asserts the value of music as a source of progressive cultural investment, linking poor, rural performers and audiences to an increasingly vast network of commerce, transportation, and technology.
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