The sounds of people and places : a geography of American music from country to classical and blues to bop / edited by George O. Carney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carney, George O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

The new edition of this popular anthology brings together the best recent essays by distinguished geographers on region, music, and their interrelatedness. While emphasizing the regional nature of American music, the book introduces geographical concepts such as location factors, spatial organization, distribution, and diffusion. The study follows the paths of four types of American folk and popular music: gospel, country, jazz, and rock from their origins to their geographic centers.

Contents:

pt. 1. Regional and ethnic studies of American music. Stephen Foster and his musical geography of the South / Arthur Krim. From stomp dances to dew songs, American Indian music in Oklahoma at the turn of the twenty-first century / Hugh W. Foley Jr. Music geography across the borderline, musical iconography, mythic themes, and North American place perceptions of the United States-Mexico borderlands / Edward G. Huefe III. Roll on Columbia, Woody Guthrie, migrants' tales, and regional transformation in the Pacific Northwest / John R. Gold. Rappin' in America, a regional music phenomenon / George O. Carney. Selected reading and listening I

pt. 2. Cultural hearths and cultural diffusion of American music. Western swing and Fort Worth, culture hearth of the first alternative country music form / George O. Carney. "Get your kicks on Route 66!" a song map of postwar migration / Arthur Krim. Americans at the Met, the rise of the homegrown opera star in the twentieth century / John J. Flynn. Cowabunga! surfer rock in southern California / George O. Carney. Why Seattle? an examination of an alternative rock culture hearth / Thomas L. Bell. Selected reading and listening II

pt. 3. The role of place in American music. Music and place / George O. Carney. Place and innovation in popular music, the bebop revolution in jazz / Roger W. Stump. Urban blues, the sound of the Windy City / George O. Carney. Lubbock on everything, the evocation of place in the music of west Texas / Blake Gumprecht. Louie Louie land, music geography of the Pacific Northwest / Robert T. Kuhlken. Selected reading and listening III

Pt. 4. A selected music geography bibliography / George O. Carney

pt. 5. Music resources on the Internet / George O. Carney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index.

ISBN:

074251742X

0742517438

OCLC:

49903048