Music and politics in San Francisco : from the 1906 quake to the Second World War /
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| Author / Creator: | Miller, Leta E. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | California studies in 20th-century music ; 13 California studies in 20th-century music ; 13. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8540194 |
Table of Contents:
- The Paris of the West : San Francisco at the turn of the century
- From the quake to the crash
- 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 Depression and beyond
- 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.
