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Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) PAP/COM Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0195146677
ISBN-10: 0195146670
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Product Details

  • Series: Global Music Series
  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; PAP/COM edition (November 4, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195146670
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195146677
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.8 x 5.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,244,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 starsTitle is Misleading
By Page Turner on September 11, 2014
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I assigned this book as a text for a university class called American Culture, American Music based on the preview pages available, the publisher's description, its format as a small intro-type book, and the inclusion of a CD. I made a big mistake. The author selects only the most arcane genres and musicians, satisfying, I believe, only her own esoteric tastes. You will find nothing of bluegrass, very little of blues, nothing of rock and roll, nothing of jazz. She establishes the themes of American identity (from many, one) and the influence of immigration, but her writing style obscures rather than sheds light on these themes. Her prose is obtuse. The photographs are amateurish and the several of the recordings are very low fidelity. If this book is a representative sample of the series, I would have serious reservations about assigning any of them.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Glory of the American Multicultural Experience
By Carol K. Baron on October 12, 2013
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This book focuses on the multiple ethnic musics that have contributed to the identification of American music from the time of the originating migrations that founded the North American states. It stands as a challenge to histories that identify American music as having its origins in the hegemonic cultures of English, then German, Protestant American societies to which later immigrants contributed. According to the historian Ron Takaki, African, Catholic, and Jewish migrations simultaneously occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--sometimes they occurred on the same ships, sometimes on other ships. Adelaida Reyes draws attention to the musical interactions that began in colonial settlements. The book is a fine introduction to a complex and splendid aspect of American life and culture, in which Americans can justifiably take pride.
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