Music in America : experiencing music, expressing culture

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Music in America : experiencing music, expressing culture

Adelaida Reyes

(Global music series / general editors, Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell)

Oxford University Press, 2005

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-116), videography (p. 117), and index

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Volume

ISBN 9780195146660

Description

'Music in America', a volume in the 'Global Music Series', is an overview of diverse traditions of the American musical landscape. Taking a holistic approach to American musical culture, it presents social, political, and economic issues as reflected through the study of American music.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780195146677

Description

Music in America is a volume in the Global Music Series, edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell. This volume, which can be used in world music courses alongside other case study volumes in the series as well as in introductory courses on the history of American music, is an overview of diverse traditions of the American musical landscape. Taking a holistic approach to American musical culture, this volume presents social, political, and economic issues as reflected through the study of American music.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword: Preface: CD Track List: 1. A Unifying Vision Three Themes A Voyage of Discovery The Perspective: The Historical Context: 2. Diversity and American Musical Life Diversity and American Ideology Sources of Diversity Immigration: Forced Migration
  • Voluntary Migration: Diversity from Within: Diversity through Aggregation
  • Diversity through Divergence from Common Roots
  • Diversity in Motion: Redrawing Boundaries: Diversity and the American Musical Scene 3. Identity and American Music A Story of Two Songs Identity: From the Ground Up The Human Dimension: Markers of Identity: Context: Identity on the National Level Summing Up: The Seeds of Complexity: The Genesis of American Musical Boundaries A Backward Glance 4. E pluribus unum Oneness: The Historical Dimension The Language of Oneness Aaron Copeland and A Lincoln Portrait "My Hometown" by Bruce Springsteen: The Paradox of Musical Oneness: Its Changing Face, the Unchanging Mission Multiculturalism and Oneness: Race, Oneness, and Jazz: Dizzy Gillespie: The Dynamics of Oneness 5. American Musical Culture A View through Technology Technology and Contemporary Frontier Pushing: At the Frontier of Musical Sound: Genre and Other Boundaries: Who Is a Musician?: The Production and Dissemination of Music: Music as Property and as Commodity: Beyond Technology: The Larger Picture A Shift in Perspective We, the People Endnote References: Resources: Index:

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