5: Hymns to Chicago: Progress, Myth, and the Music of the Metropolis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Amerika in Wien 1
5. 1: Ancient People on New Ground: European Culture Meets American Civilization 17
6. 2: New Movies and Neue Menschen: From Red Vienna to “Anatol on the Missouri” 42
7. 3: Stefan Zweig’s “Giant Wave of Uniformity”: Colonization, Class, and the Polemics of American Mass Culture 60
8. 4: Babbitt’s Wives and Lovers: White Socialism, Gender, and the Poetry of the Machine 81
9. 5: Hymns to Chicago: Progress, Myth, and the Music of the Metropolis 100
10. 6: The Danube Blues: From American Mass Culture to Austrian Culture for the Masses 121
11. Epilogue: Delightful Facts and Convenient Fictions; Reconsidering Ann Tizia Leitich’s Austria in the Context of Her American Writings 151
12. Chronology 171
13. Ann Tizia Leitich: A Selected Bibliography 179
14. Index 209