Walking blues
Subtitle: making Americans from Emerson to Elvis
By: Timothy L. Parrish.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: National characteristics, American; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Popular culture -- United States -- Philosophy; Blues (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States; Pragmatism; United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy; United States -- Intellectual life
Description: "Who or what is an American? Many scholars have recently argued that in a country of such vast cultural and ethnic diversity as the United States it is not useful or even possible to talk of a single national identity. Are people right to suggest that the very idea of "Americanness" is merely a myth designed to obscure the divisions among us?" "This is the central question addressed by Tim Parrish in this interdisciplinary study."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index.