Yankee Blues: Musical Culture and American Identity
Hardcover, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in Good dust jacket.
Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with gently bumped corners. DJ has shelf wear, edge wear, closed tear at top front, light scuffing. Examines the cultural and generational controversy over jazz and modernist music that raged in the American musical world between the two world wars. On one side were Yankee composers and their followers; on the other side were the promoters and composers of jazz and modernist music and numerous African American jazz greats (from DJ flap). ; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 213 pages.
ISBN: 0253368030 Item #4650005
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