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245 10 a| Highbrow/lowdown :b| theater, jazz, and the making of the new middle class /c| David Savran.;

300 a| viii, 326 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Portions of the text were previously published.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-306) and index.;

505 0 a| America's music -- The struggle for legitimacy -- Fascinating rhythm -- Pandering to the "intelligent minority" -- Human cogs and levers -- Jazz cosmopolitanism -- The canonization of Eugene O'Neill.;

520 a| This book explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. The music affected every stratum of U.S. society and culture, confusing and challenging long-entrenched hierarchies based on class, race, and ethnicity. But jazz was much more than the music--it was also a powerful cultural force that brought African American, Jewish, and working-class culture into the white Protestant mainstream. When the influence of jazz spread to legitimate theater, playwrights, producers, and critics rushed to distinguish the newly emerging literary theater from its illegitimate cousins. The efforts to defeat the democratizing influences of jazz and to canonize playwrights like Eugene O'Neill triumphed, giving birth to American theater as we know it today.;

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Highbrow/lowdown : theater, jazz, and the making of the new middle class / David Savran.

Author/creator	Savran, David, 1950-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2009.
Description	viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Music--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --20th century. Jazz--History and criticism. Theater--United States. --History. --20th century. Middle class--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents	America's music -- The struggle for legitimacy -- Fascinating rhythm -- Pandering to the "intelligent minority" -- Human cogs and levers -- Jazz cosmopolitanism -- The canonization of Eugene O'Neill.
Abstract	This book explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. The music affected every stratum of U.S. society and culture, confusing and challenging long-entrenched hierarchies based on class, race, and ethnicity. But jazz was much more than the music--it was also a powerful cultural force that brought African American, Jewish, and working-class culture into the white Protestant mainstream. When the influence of jazz spread to legitimate theater, playwrights, producers, and critics rushed to distinguish the newly emerging literary theater from its illegitimate cousins. The efforts to defeat the democratizing influences of jazz and to canonize playwrights like Eugene O'Neill triumphed, giving birth to American theater as we know it today.
General note	Portions of the text were previously published.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-306) and index.
LCCN	2008051143
ISBN	9780472116928 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0472116924 (cloth : alk. paper)

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