[ebooks] Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music by Ann Labounsky at Arts-Photography

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Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate; Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic; contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique; Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genresmdash;including art music; jazz; popular song; ragtime; and Hawaiian musicmdash;and numerous well-known musicians; such as Charles Ives; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single; unified vision; an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation; each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.