| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1917 Chronology -- Prologue: New Year's Eve 1916 -- The old order: January 1917 -- Anxiety: February 1917 -- Noise: March 1917 -- Explosions: April 1917 -- Middle America: May 1917 -- Winding up: June 1917 -- Summer: July-August 1917 -- Anticipation: September 1917 -- Preparation: October 1917 -- Implosions: November 1917 -- Fallout: December 1917 -- Epilogue: New Year's Day 1918 -- Afterword |
| Summary |
The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music. The United States entered World War I, jazz burst onto the national scene, and the German musicians who dominated classical music were forced from the stage. In this unsettled time, no one was safe from suspicion, but America's passion for music made the rewards high for those who could balance musical skill with diplomatic savvy |
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"Nineteen seventeen, the year the United States entered World War I, was transformative for American musical culture. The European performers who had dominated classical concert stages for generations came under intense scrutiny, and some of the compositions of Austro-German composers were banned. This year saw the concurrent rise of jazz music from a little-known regional style to a national craze. Significant improvements in recording technology facilitated both the first million-selling jazz record and the first commercial recordings of full symphony orchestras. In a segregated country, as the US military wrestled with how to make use of several million African Americans who had registered for the draft, James Reese Europe broke down racial barriers with his Fifteenth New York National Guard Band. This book tells the story of this year through the lives of eight performers: orchestral conductors Karl Muck and Walter Damrosch, violinist Fritz Kreisler, pianist Olga Samaroff, contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, jazz cornetists Dominic LaRocca and Freddie Keppard, and army bandmaster James Reese Europe. Their individual stories, traced month by month through the eventful year of 1917, illuminate the larger changes that convulsed the country's musical culture and transformed it in uniquely American ways." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed March 28, 2019) |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Music and the war
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Nineteen seventeen, A.D.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Music
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Music and war
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Nineteen seventeen, A.D.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190872328 |
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0190872322 |
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9780190872335 |
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0190872330 |
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9780190872342 |
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0190872349 |
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