Description
That is the primary study to explore fully the parable of The us as reflected within 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 usA. 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 entire and diverse narrative of this complex nation may well be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints which are the text of The us’s story. Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the up to date workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history.