Philip M Gentry

What Will I Be

American Music and Cold War Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

What Shall I Be follows the transformation of American music in the Cold War era-from Doris Day to John Cage, doo-wop to Asian American cabaret-and the rise of identity as a site of political activity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190299590
• ISBN-10: 0190299592
• Artikelnr.: 49035361

Autorenporträt

Philip M. Gentry writes about music and politics in the United States. Originally from the Bay Area, he earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is currently assistant professor of music history at the University of Delaware, and lives in Philadelphia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction:
Music and Identity: A Post-War Genealogy
2. Singing Smoothly:
Masculinity in Early Doo-Wop
3. The Blonde Who Knew Too Much:
The Whiteness of Doris Day
4. This Promise of Paradise:
Identity and Performance in the Pacific Theater
5. Making Sense of Silence:
John Cage's Queer Avant-Garde
6. Epilogue
The Practice of Identity