The Great American Symphony : Music, the Depression, and War / by Tawa, Nicholas E.

Table of Contents: “…Attitudes -- The times -- Symphonism ascendant -- The symphony's public role -- Symphonies of the mid- to late thirties. …”
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Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra / by Lee, Douglas A.

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Berlin : the symphony continues : orchestrating architectural, social, and artistic change in Germany's new capital /

Table of Contents: “…Berlin's symphony continues: architectural, social and artistic change / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and Rachel J. …”
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The international politics of sport in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…Unfinished symphony : a history of the Olympic Games from Coubertin to Samaranch /…”
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Women in the metropolis : gender and modernity in Weimar culture /

Table of Contents: “…Female flanerie and the Symphony of the city /…”
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Proof through the night : music and the great war / by Watkins, Glenn, 1927-

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Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era /

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Avant-garde film /

Table of Contents: “…Paris -- Berlin -- Moscow: On the Montage Aesthetic in the City Symphony Films of the 1920's /…”
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Wasteland : the Great War and the origins of modern horror / by Poole, W. Scott, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Corpses in the wasteland -- Symphony of horror -- Waxworks -- Nightmare bodies -- Fascism and horror -- Universal monsters -- Afterword: The age of horror.…”

In the shadow of the magic mountain : the Erika and Klaus Mann story / by Weiss, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…Kindertheater -- Journey without sleep -- The lights go down -- Pathetic symphony -- Escape to life -- The turning point -- The last day -- Rainy night, windy morrow.…”
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The jazz republic : music, race, and American culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

Table of Contents: “…Jazz occupies Germany -- The aural shock of modernity -- Writing symphonies in jazz -- Syncopating the mass ornament -- Bridging the great divides -- Singing the Harlem Renaissance -- Jazz's silence.…”
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Backroads pragmatists : Mexico's melting pot and civil rights in the United States / by Flores, Ruben, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A Symphony of Cultures -- Shock Troops -- The Language of Experience -- The School and Society -- The Yaqui Way of Life -- "The Sun Has Exploded": Integration and the California School -- Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights.…”
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The Sounds of Place : Music and the American Cultural Landscape. by Von Glahn, Denise

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: A Place to Start -- Chapter One: America as Niagara: Nature as Icon -- Anthony Philip Heinrich: The War of the Elements and the Thundering of Niagara -- William Henry Fry: Niagara Symphony -- George Frederick Bristow: Niagara: Symphony for Grand Orchestra and Chorus -- Chapter Two: From Country to City in the Music of Charles Ives -- The Housatonic at Stockbridge -- From Hanover Square North, at the End of a Tragic Day, the Voice of the People Again Arose…”
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Berlin replayed : cinema and urban nostalgia in the postwall era / by Wagner, Brigitta B., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Auf wiedersehen, Berlin! -- Remake: Berlin symphonies and the myth of the weltstadt -- Generation: a 1950s place for us -- Virtuality: cinema, archive, and the interactive map of Potsdamer Platz -- Orientation: geographical didacticism and the X-films of new Berlin -- Epilogue: Berlin returns, again.…”
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Leonard Bernstein and the language of jazz / by Baber, Katherine A., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein's philosophy and the language of jazz -- Trading fours : Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and jazz -- A jazz-shaped America : swing styles in Fancy Free and On the Town -- Jazz as a rhetoric of conflict in Symphony numbers 2 : The Age of Anxiety -- West Side Story, modern jazz, and the musical commitment -- "Red, white and blues" : Bernstein's blues and the American soul -- Conclusion.…”
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Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / by Hake, Sabine, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene : Weimar Berlin, circa 1920 -- Mapping Weimar society : on masses, classes, and white-collar workers -- Organizing the modern masses : new building in Weimar Berlin -- Walking in the metropolis : the city texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer -- Picturing the new Berlin : photography, architecture, and modern mass society -- Deconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Reconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin, symphony of the big city.…”
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Dark mirror : African Americans and the Federal Writers' Project / by Butts, J. J.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: New world symphony: New Deal civic pluralism in the FWP guidebooks -- This wise geolatry: modernization and urban planning in the FWP guidebooks -- Other than what we seem: the folk histories of Hurston and Wright -- They seek a city: the future of African America in FWP social histories and intertexts -- Patterns of modernity: the urban folk, state power, and citizenship in Petry and Ellison -- Conclusion: Irony and liberalism.…”

Hearing Luxe Pop : glorification, glamour, and the middlebrow in American popular music / by Howland, John, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, man -- Hearing Luxe Pop : Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the six degrees of symphonic soul -- The (symphonic) Jazz age, musical vaudeville, and "glorified" entertainments -- Jazz with strings : between Jazz and the great American songbook -- Defining populuxe : capitol records and the swinging early Hi-Fi era -- Phil Spector, early 1960s "teenage symphonies," and the fabulous lower middlebrow -- Mining AM (white) gold : the 1960s MOR-pop foundations of 1970s soft rock -- Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from psychedelic to progressive -- From sophistisoul to disco : Barry White and the fall of Luxe Pop…”

Hearing Luxe Pop : glorification, glamour, and the middlebrow in American popular music / by Howland, John, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, man -- Hearing Luxe Pop : Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the six degrees of symphonic soul -- The (symphonic) Jazz age, musical vaudeville, and "glorified" entertainments -- Jazz with strings : between Jazz and the great American songbook -- Defining populuxe : capitol records and the swinging early Hi-Fi era -- Phil Spector, early 1960s "teenage symphonies," and the fabulous lower middlebrow -- Mining AM (white) gold : the 1960s MOR-pop foundations of 1970s soft rock -- Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from psychedelic to progressive -- From sophistisoul to disco : Barry White and the fall of Luxe Pop.…”
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Lucky mud & other foma : a field guide to Kurt Vonnegut's environmentalism and planetary citizenship / by Jarvis, Christina S.

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a planetary citizen -- Views from Titan, Tralfamadore, and the Blue Tunnel : writing for a "salubrious blue-green orb" -- A Hoosier's symphony of place : from fresh water to salt water to quartz porcupine quills -- Apocalyptic landscapes : Cat's cradle, Slapstick, and Galápagos -- Midland City : asphalt prairies, drug stores, and racism at breakfast time -- M-17 houses, EPICAC, and Wolfgang -- What are people for? …”