The Music of Multicultural America: Performance Identity and Community in the United States (American Made Music Series)
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About this book
The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance identity and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York to Arab music in Detroit to West Indian steel bands in Brooklyn to Kathak music and dance in California to Irish music in Boston to powwows in the midwestern plains to Hispanic and Native musics of the Southwest borderlands. Many chapters demonstrate the processes involved in supporting promoting and reviving community music. Others highlight the ways in which such American institutions as city festivals or state and national folklife agencies come into play. Thirteen themes and processes outlined in the introduction unify the collections fifteen case studies and suggest organizing frameworks for student projects. Due to the diversity of music profiled in the bookMexican mariachi African American gospel Asian West Coast jazz womens punk French-American Cajun and Anglo-American sacred harpand to the methodology of fieldwork ethnography and academic activism described by the authors the book is perfect for courses in ethnomusicology world music anthropology folklore and American studies. Audio and visual materials that support each chapter are freely available on the ATMuse website supported by the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University.
