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Richard H. Pells, Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0-300-11504-8 (hb), 978-0-300-18173-9 (pb)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2013

DAVID C. PAUL
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 137 - 141
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References

1 Specifically, I have in mind Pells, 's Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973)Google Scholar, and The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s (New York: Harper and Row, 1985).

2 Notable exceptions are Scott, William B. and Rutkoff, Peter M.'s New York Modern: the Arts and the City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)Google Scholar and several books by Pells's former University of Texas colleague Crunden, Robert M., including From Self to Society, 1919–1941 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972)Google Scholar, Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization 1889–1920 (New York: Basic Books, 1982), and Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism (New York: Basic Books, 2000).

3 Douglas, Ann, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995), 8Google Scholar.

4 Scott and Rutkoff, New York Modern, xvii.

5 For an overview of the American neoclassicism, see Oja, Carol, ‘New World Neoclassicism’, in Making Music Modern (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 229–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Beal, Amy, New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.