Americana: Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music

Americana: Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music
ISBN-10
3830997566
ISBN-13
9783830997566
Series
Americana
Category
Music
Pages
233
Language
English
Published
2024
Publisher
Waxmann Verlag
Authors
Sascha Pöhlmann, Knut Holtsträter

Description

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. Situated at the intersection between musicology and American Studies, the essays focus on the categories of aesthetics, authenticity, and performance in order to show how popular music is made American-from Alaskan hip hop to German Schlager, from Creedence Clearwater Revival to film scores, from popular opera to U2, from the Rolling Stones to country rap, and from Steve Earle to the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.

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