1 The medium of music represents a pioneering force of crossing boundaries on cultural,
ethnic, racial, and national levels. Critics such as Wilfried Raussert and Reinhold …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book introduces “students” of all ages to the complexities of Inter …

Intermedial Modernism: Music, Dance, and Sound examines how twentieth-century
combinations of literature with sound-based arts like music, dance, and radio emerged from …

Gettin'Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an
imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity …

“A bold and wide-ranging study, from a musical angle, of 'the West and the rest.'Timothy D.
Taylor mingles insights from musicology, cultural and social history, and cultural theory to …

The transnational turns in jazz studies and American Studies have both sought to challenge
narratives of American exceptionalism but in noticeably different ways. While much of …

This dissertation analyzes the impact of musical transatlanticism on the identities of
American communities. I do so through case studies in three time periods: seventeenth …

This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically
literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United …

To capture the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in twentieth-century America, this
dissertation is organized as a set of case studies that involve struggles to define American …

Abstract" ReSounding Fictions: Music, Literature and Audience in Early Twentieth-Century
America" explores the significance of music in American culture by examining its …