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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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    Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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    Music divided Bartók's legacy in cold war culture / by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Bartók's Concerto for orchestra and the demise of Hungary's "third road" -- A compromised composer : Bartók's music and Western Europe's fresh start -- "Bartók is ours" : the Voice of America and Hungarian control over Bartók's legacy -- Bartók and his publics : defining the "modern classic" -- Beyond the folk song; or, what was Hungarian socialist realist music? …”
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    The American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 / by Murchison, Gayle Minetta

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Scherzo humoristique (Cat and mouse) : Copland's American Petrushka and his debt to Stravinsky -- Boulanger and compositional maturity -- Popular music and jazz : authentic or Ersatz? -- Paris and jazz : French neoclassicism and the new modern American music -- Back in the United States : popular music, jazz, and the new American music -- European influence beyond Stravinsky and les Six : Hába and Schoenberg -- Toward a new national music during the 1930s : Copland's populism, accessible style, and folk and popular music -- Copland's journey left -- "Folk" music and the popular front : El salón Mexico -- Billy the Kid -- A vision for American music -- .…”
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    The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

    Published 1985
    Table of Contents: “…The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory --…”
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    Geoffrey Hill and his contexts

    Published 2011
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    A companion to Terence

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence Heather Vincent 5. Meter and Music Timothy J. Moore PART II CONTEXTS AND THEMES 6. …”
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