1st Edition
Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Introduction
1 An Immigrant’s Perspective – The Role of Public Patriotism
2 The National Anthem and the Challenge of Standardization
3 The Advocacy of the Immigrant – Ganz and The Star-Spangled Banner
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Iain Quinn is Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University. He is also the author of The Development and Genesis of an English Organ Sonata (2017), The Organist in Victorian Literature (2017), and Music and Religion in the Writings of Ian McEwan (2023).
“In a concise and masterful way, Iain Quinn has provided a portrait of the celebrated Swiss American musician Rudolph Ganz, as well as an overview of the attempts that Ganz and others made to standardize The Star-Spangled Banner. It is an engaging story of history, music, patriotism, and politics.”
Larry Alan Smith, Composer and Professor Emeritus and Former Dean, The Hartt School, University of Hartford
