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American Modernism
Author(s): Robert M. Crunden (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 2 May 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780465014842
- ISBN-13: 0465014844
Book Description
In this book Robert Crunden puts the jazz back in Jazz Age. Jazz was Americas greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term Jazz Age, we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. To correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name, while tracing the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York.While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts, he never fails to trace the complex cross-currents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their Lost Generation peers, a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the dayJames Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia OKeeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein.
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Synopsis
A sweeping cultural history of American Modernism in the 1920s, viewed through the prismatic lens of jazz. . In this book Robert Crunden puts the jazz back in Jazz Age. Jazz was Americas greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term Jazz Age, we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. To correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name, while tracing the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York. While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts, he never fails to trace the complex cross-currents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their Lost Generation peers, a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the dayJames Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia OKeeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein.
