Music and politics in San Francisco

from the 1906 quake to the Second World War

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Leta E. Miller
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Music and politics in San Francisco: from the 1906 quake to the Second World War
2012, University of California Press
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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.

Edition Notes

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

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

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Berkeley
Series
California studies in 20th-century music -- 13, California studies in 20th-century music -- 13.

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Dewey Decimal Class
780.9794/6109041
Library of Congress
ML3917.U6 M55 2012

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xiv, 365 p. :
Number of pages
365

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Open Library
OL25138460M
ISBN 10
0520268911
ISBN 13
9780520268913
LCCN
2011013960
OCLC/WorldCat
711643532

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