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THEY DO THAT VOODOO SO WELL:
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SELECTED SONGS OF
THE FOUNDERS OF THE AMERICAN STANDARD SONGBOOK
by
Jaehee Choi
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(MUSIC)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Jaehee Choi
Object Description
| Title | They do that voodoo so well: a critical examination of selected songs of the founders of the American standard songbook |
| Author | Choi, Jaehee |
| Author email | jaeheech@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Music (Music Theory) |
| School | Thornton School of Music |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-25 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-21 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lauridsen, Morten |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lesemann, Frederick Crookston, William |
| Abstract | The history of musical composition in American culture reveals a complex and diverse set of intentions and aspirations. Scholars have identified four essential aesthetic courses that have been utilized by American composers: 1) adaptation of the European models of symphony, opera, chamber music (Copland, Barber, Carter, etc.); 2) American experimentalism (Ives, Cowell, Partch, Cage); 3) the American Jazz Tradition (Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Braxton); and 4) American song and dance music {Broadway, Movies} (Kern, Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, etc.). The first two spheres have been consistently explored in the academic musical environment for many decades and recently there has been a great deal of scholarly activity concerning the jazz tradition. This dissertation is part of a rising interest in the analysis and critical evaluation of American song as one of the true treasures within the American musical tradition. The text examines specifically the work of the four founding pioneers of the American popular standard songbook: Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.; A variety of analytical procedures are utilized in this dissertation but all of them are grounded in the reductive analytical techniques developed by Heinrich Schenker. The opening chapter examines the social and artistic climate of the first thirty-five years of twentieth century America. Chapter two presents a primer of the analytical procedures that are implemented in the main body of the dissertation. Chapters three through six present a short biography of each composer followed by an examination of several songs by each composer and concludes with a short reception history of each song in recordings.; The goal of this study is to discover the essential unifying procedures in these works and, also, the unique compositional qualities of each individual composer by identifying their distinctive technique of prolongation through contrapuntal and harmonic processes. My wish is that the study will serve to clarify the inimitable historical importance of the American songbook in the cultural context of our contemporary world. |
| Keyword | the founders; American standard songbook; selected songs |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | after 1900 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m938 |
| Rights | Choi, Jaehee |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Choi-20071121 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume35/etd-Choi-20071121.pdf |
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| Full text | THEY DO THAT VOODOO SO WELL: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SELECTED SONGS OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE AMERICAN STANDARD SONGBOOK by Jaehee Choi ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MUSIC) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Jaehee Choi |
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