What will I be : American music and Cold War identity /

What will I be : American music and Cold War identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gentry, Philip, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States. Music and identity politics. Music and identity politics. Music -- Political aspects. Music -- Social aspects. Social aspects. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13540596

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ISBN:	9780190299620 0190299622 9780190299606 0190299606 0190299592 9780190299590 9780190299613
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation. Central to the era was the rise of the concept of identity, and with it a reformulation of the country's political life during the early Cold War. At the same time, a revolution in music was taking place, a tumult of new musical styles and institutions that would lead to everything from the birth of rock and roll to the new downtown experimental music. Together, these two trends came to define the era: a search for new social affinities and modes of self-fashioning, with music providing just the right tool for doing so. 'What Will I Be' follows the development of the concept of identity as it emerged alongside the development of new post-war music making.
Other form:	Print version: Gentry, Philip. What will I be. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780190299590

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Music and identity : a postwar genealogy
Singing smoothly : masculinity in early doo-wop
The blonde who knew too much : the whiteness of Doris Day
This promise of paradise : identity and performance in the Pacific theater
Making sense of silence : John Cage's queer avant-garde
Epilogue : the practice of identity.