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Zeese Papanikolas An American Cakewalk (Hardback). Author: Zeese Papanikolas. Format: Hardback. Release Date: 08/26/2015. Release Year: 2015. Genre: Biography. Item Weight: 454g. Item Length: 152mm. Item Height: 229mm. Further DetailsTitle: An American Cakewalk Condition: New Description: The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless new world of railroads, factories, and skyscrapers where old assumptions were being challenged and new values had yet to be created. In An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World , Zeese Papanikolas tells the lively and entertaining story of a diverse group of figures in the arts and sciences who inhabited this new America. Just as ragtime composers subverted musical expectations by combining European march timing with African syncopation, so this book's protagonists—who range from Emily Dickinson to Thorstein Veblen and from Henry and William James to Charles Mingus—interrogated the modern American world through their own "syncopations" of cultural givens. The old antebellum slave dance, the cakewalk, with its parody of the manners and pretensions of the white folks in the Big House, provides a template of how the tricksters, shamans, poets, philosophers, ragtime pianists, and jazz musicians who inhabit this book used the arts of parody, satire, and disguise to subvert American cultural norms and to create new works of astonishing beauty and intellectual vigor. Author: Zeese Papanikolas EAN: 9780804791991 Format: Hardback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN: 9780804791991 Publisher: Stanford University Press Language: English Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 454g Genre: Biography Subtitle: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World Release Date: 08/26/2015 Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
