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.
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Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Undergraduate courses in world music or American music history.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 139 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-514667-7 (9780195146677)
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Professor of Music/EthnomusicologyProfessor of Music/Ethnomusicology, New Jersey City University
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
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