Sweet air
modernism, regionalism, and American popular song
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Author
Publication
2013 - University of Illinois Press, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27150083M
- ISBN-139780252078927
- ISBN-100252078926
- OCLC Control Number814455404
- OCLC Control Numbersweetairmodernis0000come
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012042309
Classifications
- DDC782.421640973
- LCCML3477 .C66 2013
Description
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 [Publisher description]
Subjects
Series Statement
- Music in American life
Other Editions
- Sweet air: modernism, regionalism, and American popular song
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