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Rethinking American Music, Hardback Book

Rethinking American Music Hardback

Edited by Tara Browner, Thomas Riis

Part of the Music in American Life series

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In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L.

Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship.

Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage's role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal identity; and the ways cultural and ethnographic circumstances determine the music that emerges from the creative process.

Many of the articles also look at how a piece of music becomes initially popular and then exerts a lasting influence in the larger global culture.

The result is an insightful state-of-the-field examination that doubles as an engaging short course on our complex, multifaceted musical heritage.

Contributors: Karen Ahlquist, Amy C. Beal, Mark Clagu,. Esther R. Crookshank, Todd Decker, Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Joshua S.

Duchan, Mark Katz, Jeffrey Magee, Sterling E. Murray, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., David Warren Steel, Jeffrey Taylor, and Mark Tucker

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