Sounding Nation, Hearing Race in Modern Music

Kassandra Hartford is an Associate Professor and Chair of Music at Muhlenberg College. A musicologist specializing in twentieth century music of the United States, Brazil, and France, her publications appear in The Musical Quarterly, Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Ars Lyrica. She is a recipient of the Harold Powers World Travel Grant from the American Musicological Society, a Tinker Field Grant, a Newberry Library Individual Research Grant, and an LCWS-Eisenhower Institute Faculty Fellowship.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: "It is race which colours modernity"

Chapter 1 : Le boeuf sur le toit and Milhaud's Transnational Latinité
Chapter 2: How Danças Características Africanas became Métis
Chapter 3: Authenticity, Anthropology and Appropriation in Gershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess
Chapter 4: Hearing the "Primitive" in the "Skyscraper Primitive": Transnational Modes of Racial Alterity in John Alden Carpenter's Skyscrapers
Chapter 5: William Grant Still's Reclamation and Reimagining of Primitivist Modernism
Chapter 6: Juxtaposing Blackness and Whiteness in Mignone's O Maracatu de Chico Rei

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index