Graham, T. Austin

The great American songbooks : musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture / T. Austin Graham - New York : Oxford University Press, c2013. - xv, 293 p. - (Modernist literature & culture) .

Musical literature, its theory and practice -- Songs not in thy songs: musical forms and American free verse -- The literary soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's heard and unheard melodies -- Make them black and bid them sing: musical poetics, racial transformation, and the Harlem renaissance -- "Got over": the chorus girl novel and the musical stage - The bridge: motifs in contemporary musical fiction

9780199862115


American Literature, 20th Century--History and Criticism
Music in Literature
Popular Music--History and Criticism--United States
Literary Criticism--General--American

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