Musical literature, its theory and practice -- Songs not in thy songs: musical forms and American free verse -- The literary soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's heard and unheard melodies -- Make them black and bid them sing: musical poetics, racial transformation, and the Harlem renaissance -- "Got over": the chorus girl novel and the musical stage -- The bridge: motifs in contemporary musical fiction
Summary
'The Great American Songbooks' shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century
