America's Musical Pulse Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society

Name: America's Musical Pulse Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society
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ISBN: 9780275943066

ISBN-10: 0275943062

ISBN-13: 9780275943066

Edition: 1992

Authors: Kenneth J. Bindas

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Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American social history and such diverse fields as sociology, political science, literature, communications, and business as well as music. In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars, educators, and writers from a variety of…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Importance of Music to People



Politics Popular Music as Politics and Protest



""Blues What I Am:"" Blues Consciousness and Social Protest



Proud to Be an American: Patriotism in Country Music



""Still Boy Meets Girl Stuff:"" Popular Music and War



Class Social and Geographic Characteristics of Country Music



The Music of the Dispossessed: The Rise of the Blues