Music and politics in San Francisco : from the 1906 quake to the Second World War / Leta E. Miller.

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ML3917 .U6 M55 2012

Author/Creator:

Miller, Leta E.

Language:

English

Imprint:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

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Title Variation:

Music & politics in San Francisco

Note:

"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-341) and index.

Contents:

The Paris of the West : San Francisco at the turn of the century
The politics of class : the San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the lure of European culture (1911-1930)
The politics of race : Chinatown, forbidden and alluring
Interlude 1 : two musical tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown
The politics of labor : the union(s), the clubs and theaters, and the predicament of black musicians
Musical utopias : Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory
Opera : the people's music or a diversion for the rich?
The despair of the Depression and the clash of race
Ultramodernism and other contemporary offerings : looking west, challenging the East
The politics of work : idealism confronts bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project
Interlude 2 : highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project : Take your choice and Keeton's concert spirituals
Welcoming the world : San Francisco's fairs of 1915 and 1939-1940
Aftermath.

Series:

California studies in 20th-century music ; 13.

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ISBN:

9780520268913
0520268911