The sounds of people and places
Subtitle: a geography of American music from country to classical and blues to bop / edited by George O. Carney
Contributors: Carney, George O
Edition: 4th ed
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-325) and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Regional and ethnic studies of American music. Stephen Foster and his musical geography of the South / Arthur Krim. From stomp dances to dew songs, American Indian music in Oklahoma at the turn of the twenty-first century / Hugh W. Foley Jr. Music geography across the borderline, musical iconography, mythic themes, and North American place perceptions of the United States-Mexico borderlands / Edward G. Huefe III. Roll on Columbia, Woody Guthrie, migrants' tales, and regional transformation in the Pacific Northwest / John R. Gold. Rappin' in America, a regional music phenomenon / George O. Carney. Selected reading and listening I; title: pt. 2. Cultural hearths and cultural diffusion of American music. Western swing and Fort Worth, culture hearth of the first alternative country music form / George O. Carney. "Get your kicks on Route 66!" a song map of postwar migration / Arthur Krim. Americans at the Met, the rise of the homegrown opera star in the twentieth century / John J. Flynn. Cowabunga! surfer rock in southern California / George O. Carney. Why Seattle? an examination of an alternative rock culture hearth / Thomas L. Bell. Selected reading and listening II; title: pt. 3. The role of place in American music. Music and place / George O. Carney. Place and innovation in popular music, the bebop revolution in jazz / Roger W. Stump. Urban blues, the sound of the Windy City / George O. Carney. Lubbock on everything, the evocation of place in the music of west Texas / Blake Gumprecht. Louie Louie land, music geography of the Pacific Northwest / Robert T. Kuhlken. Selected reading and listening III; title: Pt. 4. A selected music geography bibliography / George O. Carney; title: pt. 5. Music resources on the Internet / George O. Carney