Struggling to Define a Nation

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Struggling to Define a Nation is written by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520942825 (ISBN 10) and 9780520942820 (ISBN 13).

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres—including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music—and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.