U.S. Bicentennial Music
U.S. Bicentennial Music

Author: Richard Jackson

Publisher: Brooklyn : Institute for Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 36

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Specters of Democracy
Specters of Democracy

Author: Ivy G. Wilson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-05-27

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199843724

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Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book reveals how the difficult tasks of representing African Americans-both enslaved and free-in imaginative expression was part of a larger dilemma concerning representative democracy itself.

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Author: Michael Sy Uy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0197510442

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This text tells a new story about patterns of public and private grantmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period during which the United States witnessed a remarkable expansion in arts patronage. Through archival documents, oral history, and ethnographic material, author Michael Sy Uy offers an in-depth analysis of grant-making practices, and highlights important and instructive issues concerning philanthropy, arts patronage, and musical production and consumption.

Representing the Good Neighbor
Representing the Good Neighbor

Author: Carol A. Hess

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0199919992

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In this book, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the Pan American movement of the 1930s and 40s. Hess uncovers how and why attitudes towards Latin American music shifted so dramatically during the middle of the twentieth century, and what this tells us about the ways in which the history of American music has been written.