Music and Politics in San Francisco : From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War.
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 dra...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Series: | California studies in 20th-century music ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 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 Lureof European Culture (1911
- 1930); 3. The Politics of Race: Chinatown, Forbidden and Alluring; 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; 10. Welcoming the World: San Francisco's Fairs of 1915 and 1939
- 1940; 11. Aftermath; Notes; References; Index.