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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 draws on primary source material and first-hand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America's first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930's in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.

Music --- Political aspects --- History --- Social aspects --- 1930s california. --- 20th century america. --- 20th century music. --- american music history. --- asian americans. --- asian music. --- california history. --- california politics. --- chinese immigration. --- chinese opera. --- classical music. --- great depression. --- history of jazz. --- history of opera. --- history. --- live arts. --- music and racism. --- music and segregation. --- music history and criticism. --- music. --- night club jazz. --- philharmonic. --- realistic. --- san francisco symphony. --- san franciscos fairs. --- us history. --- west coast history. --- west coast music. --- wwii america. --- wwii music.

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Composers --- Harrison, Lou, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them. Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity."--

Composers --- Chen, Yi, --- China.

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