Music and Politics in San Francisco by Leta E Miller
This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws on primary source material and first-hand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America's first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930s in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.-
In Search of a Concrete Music
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The Doctor Faustus Dossier
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Experimentalism Otherwise
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Composing Modernism
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Nostalgia for the Future
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Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
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Brecht at the Opera
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The Art of Appreciation
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Making New Music in Cold War Poland
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Treatise on Musical Objects
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Music Divided
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New Music, New Allies
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In Stravinsky's Orbit
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Revealing Masks
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Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music
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Terrible Freedom
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Frontier Figures
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The Musical Legacy of Wartime France
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German Modernism
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A Wayfaring Stranger
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Music and the Elusive Revolution
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Middlebrow Modernism
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition
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Awangarda
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Classic Chic
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Beautiful Monsters
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Jewish Identities
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Magician of Sound
Few histories or musicological studies provide as lively and entertaining reading as Music and PoliticsSan Francisco Classical Voice A lively and compelling read. Forward Solidly researched and of interest to a broad audience... Highly recommended. Choice Solidly researched and of interest to a broad audience... Highly recommended. -- W. K. Kearns Choice By inviting music into her study as circumscribed by time and place, rather than by style or genre, Miller presents a colorful tapestry of social relations mediated by the civic soundscape. Journal of the Society for American Music
Leta E. Miller is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is coauthor (with Fredric Lieberman) of Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer and Lou Harrison.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520268913 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520268911 |
| Title | Music and Politics in San Francisco |
| Author | Leta E Miller |
| Series | California Studies In 20th-Century Music |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2011-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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