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Author Davis, Mary E., 1959-

Title Classic chic : music, fashion, and modernism / Mary E. Davis
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (354 pages)
Series California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music, 6
California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music, 6
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 MAGAZINES, MUSIC, AND MODERNISM; 2 PAUL POIRET; 3 LA GAZETTE DU BON TON; 4 GERMAINE BONGARD; 5 VANITY FAIR; 6 COCO CHANEL; 7 VOGUE; Notes; Works Cited; Illustration Credits; Index
Summary Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched. Yet little attention has been paid to the association of sound and style in the early twentieth centurya period of remarkable and often parallel developments in both high fashion and the arts, including music. This beautifully written book, lavishly illustrated with fashion plates and photographs, explores the relationship between music and fashion, elegantly charting the importance of these arts to the rise of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on the emergence of the movement known as Neoclassici
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index
Notes English
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Subject Musicians -- Clothing -- History -- 20th century
Fashion -- History -- 20th century
Popular culture
Popular music -- History and criticism
popular culture.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Fashion
Musicians -- Clothing
Popular culture
Popular music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005035586
ISBN 9780520941687
0520941683
9786612360541
6612360542
0520245423
9780520245426