Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 302 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520225104
,
0520244249
Series Statement:
American Crossroads v.18
Content:
Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, but rather various republics of sound that represent multiple stories of racial and ethnic difference. To this end he covers a range of music and listeners to evoke the ways that popular sounds have expanded our idea of American culture and American identity. Artists as diverse as The Weavers, Café T
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Strangers among Sounds; 1. Against Easy Listening, or, How to Hear America Sing; 2. The Yiddish Are Coming; 3. Life According to the Beat; 4. Basquiat's Ear, Rahsaan's Eye; 5. I, Too, Sing América; 6. Rock's Reconquista; Conclusion: La Misma Canción; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520244245
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Audiotopia : Music, Race, and America
Language:
English
