What Will I Be
American Music and Cold War Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 February 2018
- ISBN 9780190299590
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 239x155x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 halftone, 4 line, 1 combo 0
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Short description:
What Shall I Be follows the transformation of American music in the Cold War era-from Doris Day to John Cage, doo-wop to Asian American cabaret-and the rise of identity as a site of political activity.
MoreLong description:
In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation. At the heart of these changes during the early Cold War were the rise of the concept of identity and a reformulation of the country's political life. A revolution in music was taking place at the same time-a tumult of new musical styles and institutions that would lead to everything from the birth of rock 'n' roll to the new downtown experimental music scene. Together, these new cultural and musical trends came to define the era. In the search for new social affinities and modes of self-fashioning, music provided just the right tool. What Shall I Be follows the concept of identity as it developed alongside new post-war music making. Author Philip M. Gentry travels through four very different musical scenes: the R&B world of doo-wop pioneers the Orioles, the early film musicals of Doris Day, Asian American cabaret in San Francisco, and John Cage's infamous 4'33". The lives of musicians, composers, critics, and fans reveal how individuals negotiated the social changes sweeping the country in the initial days of the Cold War. As we are again swept up in a time of significant transformation, these early strategies help to inform the political and musical narratives of today.
Gentry (Univ. of Delaware) provides a thoughtful analysis of musical processes of identity in the US during the Cold War period... Readers will appreciate Gentry's thorough assessment of methodologies and his nuanced interpretations... Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction:
Music and Identity: A Post-War Genealogy
2. Singing Smoothly:
Masculinity in Early Doo-Wop
3. The Blonde Who Knew Too Much:
The Whiteness of Doris Day
4. This Promise of Paradise:
Identity and Performance in the Pacific Theater
5. Making Sense of Silence:
John Cage's Queer Avant-Garde
6. Epilogue
The Practice of Identity
