Sounds of People and Places A Geography of American Music from Country to Classical and Blues to Bop

Name: Sounds of People and Places A Geography of American Music from Country to Classical and Blues to Bop
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ISBN: 9780742517431

ISBN-10: 0742517438

ISBN-13: 9780742517431

Edition: 4th 2002

Authors: George O. Carney

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Book details

List price: $37.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Regional and Ethnic Studies of American Music



Stephen Foster and His Musical Geography of the South




From Stomp Dances to Dew Songs: American Indian Music in Oklahoma at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century




Music Geography Across the Borderline: Musical Iconography, Mythic Themes, and North American Place Perceptions of the United States-Mexico Borderlands




Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie, Migrants' Tales, and Regional Transformation in the Pacific Northwest




Rappin' in America: A Regional Music Phenomenon




Selected Reading and Listening I



Cultural Hearths and Cultural Diffusion of American Music



Western Swing and Fort Worth: Culture Hearth of the First Alternative Country Music Form




"Get Your Kicks on Route 66!" A Song Map of Postwar Migration




Americans at the Met: The Rise of the Homegrown Opera Star in the Twentieth Century




Cowabunga! Surfer Rock in Southern California and Beyond




Why Seattle? An Examination of an Alternative Rock Culture Hearth




Selected Reading and Listening II



The Role of Place in American Music



Music and Place




Place and Innovation in Popular Music: The Bebop Revolution in Jazz




Urban Blues: The Sound of the Windy City




Lubbock on Everything: The Evocation of Place in the Music of West Texas




Louie Louie Land: Music Geography of the Pacific Northwest




Selected Reading and Listening III



A Selected Music Geography Bibliography




Music Resources on the Internet



Index


About the Contributors


About the Editor