Overview: Engages with and challenges current critical thinking on the politics of the avant-garde.Brings together poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests in a multidiscipli.This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests (such as dance marathons and bingo). Relating close readings to social and economic contexts over the period 1856–1952,
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