Music in America Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Name: Music in America Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
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ISBN: 9780195146677

ISBN-10: 0195146670

ISBN-13: 9780195146677

Edition: 2004

Authors: Adelaida Reyes

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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.

Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


CD Track List



A Unifying Vision


Three Themes


A Voyage of Discovery


The Perspective


The Historical Context



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



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



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



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