Pacific Standard Time : modernism and the making of West Coast jazz
Spencer, Michael Thomas
Jazz--Pacific Coast (U.S.)--20th century
Jazz--History and criticism--20th century
Music--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics
Jazz
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics
American studies
Music
American history
Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. American Studies Program 2011.
An interdisciplinary study of one of the most overlooked and understudied movements in the history of jazz, this dissertation draws from the fields of New Jazz Studies, Popular Culture Studies, and Art History in order to reconstruct the cultural history of West Coast jazz. Focusing on the critical texts and institutions that allowed this movement to germinate and expand, I explore the ways in which the music was represented through various types of media: on record, on radio, on screen, in concert, and in print (i.e., record labels, radio stations, jazz periodicals, etc.). As a result, this study recontextualizes the West Coast jazz movement within the milieu of California modernism around the middle 20th century as a way to observe the broader jazz community; one which included musicians as well as photographers, painters, architects, sculptors, filmmakers, and other modernists.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF t.p. (Dec. 14, 2011).
Stowe, David W
Largey, Michael
Prouty, Ken
Michaelsen, Scott
Rachman, Stephen
2011
text
Electronic dissertations
Academic theses
Criticism, interpretation, etc
application/pdf
1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file.
isbn:9781124607900
isbn:1124607900
umi:3452955
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Ph.D.
Doctoral
American Studies
Michigan State University