What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity
Author:   Philip M. Gentry (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Delaware)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190299590


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Philip M. Gentry (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Delaware)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780190299590


ISBN 10:   0190299592
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Music and Identity: A Postwar 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

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Gentry (Univ. of Delaware) provides a thoughtful analysis of musical processes of identity in the US during the Cold War period... Readers will appreciate Gentry's thorough assessment of methodologies and his nuanced interpretations... Highly recommended. --S. Schmalenberger


"""Gentry (Univ. of Delaware) provides a thoughtful analysis of musical processes of identity in the US during the Cold War period... Readers will appreciate Gentry's thorough assessment of methodologies and his nuanced interpretations... Highly recommended."" --S. Schmalenberger"


Gentry (Univ. of Delaware) provides a thoughtful analysis of musical processes of identity in the US during the Cold War period... Readers will appreciate Gentry's thorough assessment of methodologies and his nuanced interpretations... Highly recommended. * S. Schmalenberger, CHOICE *


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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.

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