Music of Multicultural America

<The classic text on American musical expression updated with four new chaptersContributions by Susan M. Asai GageAverill Theo Cateforis Gabriel Desrosiers Mark F. DeWitt James S. Griffith Elena Humpherys James P. Leary Sarah Morelli Ron Pen Brenda M. Romero Henry Sapoznik Christopher A. Scales Daniel Sheehy and Ann Morrison SpinneyThe 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 steelbands 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 collection's fifteen case studies and suggest organizing frameworks for student projects. Due to the diversity of music profiled in the book--Mexican mariachi African American gospel Asian West Coast jazz women's punk French-American Cajun and Anglo-American sacred harp--and 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.