Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song

by Edward P. Comentale

Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country, folk, and rockabilly in relation to the growth of industry and consumer culture, Edward P. Comentale shows how this music became a vital means of exploring the new and often overwhelming feelings brought on by modern life. Comentale examines these rural genres as they translated the traumas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252078926
• ISBN13: 9780252078927
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"