A Blue Tin Pan: Musical, Cultural, and Personal Contexts of Jazz in the Music of Harold Arlen

dc.contributor.advisorWarfield, Patrick Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorEngland, Sarah Jeanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-14T06:38:57Z
dc.date.available2021-02-14T06:38:57Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the compositions of songwriter Harold Arlen, viewing them as musical portraits of the immigrant experience and the racial politics of the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. This approach reveals how Arlen’s upbringing in a racially diverse neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, where Jewish American immigrants and African Americans formed the core of the community, as well as his early years playing in jazz bands and his tenure at the Cotton Club, left a permanent and indelible mark on his compositional style. I trace the influence of African American popular music on his compositional approach, structure, and style. In doing so, this dissertation adds a more nuanced view to narratives about Jewish American songwriters’ use of jazz and blues in Tin Pan Alley song by demonstrating their specific application in the works of one composer. In addition to musical function, the personal and cultural implication of jazz elements in Arlen’s music are also explored.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/uiy1-immf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26842
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArlenen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBluesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCotton Cluben_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJazzen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMusical Theateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTin Pan Alleyen_US
dc.titleA Blue Tin Pan: Musical, Cultural, and Personal Contexts of Jazz in the Music of Harold Arlenen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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