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Sweet air : modernism, regionalism, and American popular song / Edward P. Comentale.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252094576
  • 9781299483279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML3477 .S944 2013
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Summary: '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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction From a Basement on Long Island to a Mansion on the Hill""; ""Chapter One Lord, It Just Won�t Stop!: Work and Blues in the Industrial Delta""; ""Chapter Two Thought I Had Your Heart Forever: Death, Detachment, and the Modernity of Early""; ""Chapter Three “A Rambling Funny Streak�: Woody Guthrie, Revolutionary Folk Song, and the Migrant""; ""Chapter Four Four Elvises: On the Dada Possibilities of Midcentury Rock and Roll and Modern Fan""; ""Chapter Five ( )""

'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.

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