Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century

Contents

• List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1
• 1. Charles Ives's Four Ragtime Dances and "True American Music" 17
• 2. Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish Tinge 48
• 3. Louis Armstrong and the Great Migration 83
• 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientalism 121
• 5. Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination 165 Conclusion: American Music at the Turn of a New Century 215 Notes 223 Bibliography 259 Index