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Modernism and popular music

by Schleifer, Ronald

in Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 Criticism and interpretation. / Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 Criticism and interpretation. / Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 Criticism and interpretation. / Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 Criticism and interpretation. / Modernism (Music) / Popular music United States History and criticism. / Jazz History and criticism. / Jazz. / Popular music. / United States.

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Modernism and popular music

Schleifer, Ronald

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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 modernist 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 seemingly self-evident truths about the differences between high art and popular art and, indeed, about twentieth-century modernism altogether.

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Cambridge University Press

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Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 Criticism and interpretation.

/ Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 Criticism and interpretation.

/ Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 Criticism and interpretation.

/ Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 Criticism and interpretation.

/ Modernism (Music)

/ Jazz History and criticism.

/ Jazz.