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    Modernism and popular music by Schleifer, Ronald

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction: popular music and the experience of modernism; Part I. Musical Modernism: Popular Music in the Time of Jazz: 1. …”
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    Selling sounds the commercial revolution in American music / by Suisman, David

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…When songs became a business -- Making hits -- Music without musicians -- The traffic in voices -- Musical properties -- Perfect pitch -- The black swan -- The musical soundscape of modernity.…”
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    The queer composition of America's sound gay modernists, American music, and national identity / by Hubbs, Nadine

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. …”
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    What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore)

    Published 1998
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    Listening well on Beethoven, Berlioz, and other music criticism in Paris, Boston, and New York, 1764-1890 / by Saloman, Ora Frishberg, 1938-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Chabanon and Chastellux on music and language, 1764-73 ; Lacépède, critical contemporary of Chabanon : divergent perspectives in the music treatises of 1785 ; French revolutionary perspectives on Chabanon's De la musique of 1785 ; Classic and romantic : Berlioz's "Aperçu" (1830) and musical modernity in Paris during the 1820s ; Chrétien Urhan and Beethoven's Ninth symphony in Paris, 1838 ; Literary and musical aspects of the hero's Romance in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, 1838 ; "The harmony of opposites" : characterizing Cellini's apprentice -- Boston and New York. …”
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    Cosmopolitan Twain

    Published 2008
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    The selected correspondence of Aaron Copland by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Brooklyn and Paris, 1909-24 -- The world of modern music, 1924-31 -- The depression years, 1932-37 -- Musical triumphs, 1937-42 -- During and after the war, 1942-48 -- The post-war decade, 1948-58 -- 1958 and beyond.…”
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    Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”
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    The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan by Mason, Robert, 1970-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…From old Home Melodies to jazz music: 1928-1933; 2. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont: 1933-1939; 3. …”
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    Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object -- Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. …”
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