Born in the U. S. A.: The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the PresentUniv. Press of Mississippi, 2007 - 294 Seiten This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.S.A. shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. So that the full and diverse narrative of this complex nation might be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints that are the text of America's story. Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the contemporary workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history. |
Inhalt
To Thee Sing Psalm Wil I The Roots of the Myth in Puritan Music | 16 |
We Led Fair FREEDOM Hither The Revolutionary War Era | 24 |
From Every Mountainside From the Revolution to the Outbreak of the Civil War | 39 |
Who Shall Rule This American Nation? The Civil War Era | 65 |
A Thoroughfare for Freedom Beat From the End of the Civil War to the End of the Great War | 86 |
Of Thee I Sing Baby The Tin Pan Alley Years 19201950 | 114 |
This Land Is Your Land The FolkProtest Movement and Other Voices 19201960 | 138 |
Theyve All Come to Look for America The Late 1950s and the 1960s | 166 |
You Cant Be Forever Blessed The 1970s | 197 |
Born in the USA The 1980s | 219 |
Conclusion | 248 |
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Discography | 265 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 4 - denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [sic] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life