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- American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II
- American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II
- Copyright page
- Praise for American Song and Struggle
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Broken Spears and Songs of Sorrow
- Chapter 2 Good Newes from Virginia
- Chapter 3 A Capital Chop
- Chapter 4 If I Had but a Small Loaf of Bread
- Chapter 5 Where Today Are the Pequot?
- Chapter 6 There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
- Chapter 7 A Tragedy That Beggared the Greek
- Chapter 8 Muscle, Blood, and Steel
- Chapter 9 Rule Anglo-Saxia
- Chapter 10 The Hand That Feeds You
- Chapter 11 We Are Many
- Chapter 12 100% American
- Chapter 13 We’re Up Against It Now
- Chapter 14 The Panic Is On
- Chapter 15 To Thee We Sing
- Conclusion
- Notes and Sources
- Song Index
- General Index
Chapter 12 - 100% American
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
- American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II
- American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II
- Copyright page
- Praise for American Song and Struggle
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Broken Spears and Songs of Sorrow
- Chapter 2 Good Newes from Virginia
- Chapter 3 A Capital Chop
- Chapter 4 If I Had but a Small Loaf of Bread
- Chapter 5 Where Today Are the Pequot?
- Chapter 6 There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
- Chapter 7 A Tragedy That Beggared the Greek
- Chapter 8 Muscle, Blood, and Steel
- Chapter 9 Rule Anglo-Saxia
- Chapter 10 The Hand That Feeds You
- Chapter 11 We Are Many
- Chapter 12 100% American
- Chapter 13 We’re Up Against It Now
- Chapter 14 The Panic Is On
- Chapter 15 To Thee We Sing
- Conclusion
- Notes and Sources
- Song Index
- General Index
Summary
Nativism, racism, and sexism are leading characters in this chapter, as are the songs for and against them. The Ku Klux Klan leads the way in musical contemptibility, but there are others, such as the xenophobes of the Spanish Flu epidemic and the songwriting purveyors of the postwar “Red Scare” against peace activists, labor activists, Germans, and suspected Bolsheviks. The immigrant community is under siege in the atmosphere of “100% Americanism,” and their songs – in the Cantonese opera houses, on the German and Italian vaudeville stages, in the Yiddish musical theaters, and in the ethnic recording studios – aim to fight back. The Indigenous peoples of Alaska and the lower 48 continue to resist the eradication of their song heritage, and the Mexican corridistas continue to sing of their border-crossing struggles. On the vaudeville stage, Eva Tanguay shows her contempt for conservative gender expectations, while the as-yet-unknown composers Florence Price and Ruth Crawford lay the groundwork for their own emergence.
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- American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2A Cultural History, pp. 251 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022