Music and Politics in San Francisco - From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-26891-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 384 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

Reihe: California Studies in 20th-Century Music

This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws on primary source material and first-hand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America’s first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930s in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Leta E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. The Paris of the West: San Francisco at the Turn of the Century

Part One. From the Quake to the Crash
2. The Politics of Class: The San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the Lure of European Culture (1911-1930)

3. The Politics of Race: Chinatown, Forbidden and Alluring

Interlude 1: Two Musical Tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown

4. The Politics of Labor: The Union(s), the Clubs and Theaters, and the Predicament of Black Musicians

5. Musical Utopias: Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory

6. Opera: The People's Music or a Diversion for the Rich?

Part Two. The Depression and Beyond
7. The Despair of the Depression and the Clash of Race

8. Ultramodernism and Other Contemporary Offerings: Looking West, Challenging the East

9. 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

10. Welcoming the World: San Francisco's Fairs of 1915 and 1939-1940

11. Aftermath

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leta E. Miller is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is coauthor (with Fredric Lieberman) of Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer and Lou Harrison.