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Author Scheurer, Timothy E.

Title Born in the U.S.A : the myth of America in popular music from Colonial times to the present / Timothy E. Scheurer
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages)
Series Studies in popular culture
Studies in popular culture (Jackson, Miss.)
Contents "To thee sing Psalm wil I": The roots of the myth in Puritan music -- "We led fair FREEDOM hither": The Revolutionary War era -- "From every mountainside": From the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War -- "Who shall rule this American nation?": The Civil War era -- "A thoroughfare for freedom beat": From the end of the Civil War to the end of the Great War -- "Of thee I sing, Baby": The Tin Pan Alley years, 1920-1950 -- "This land is your land": The Folk-Protest Movement and other voices, 1920-1960 -- "They've all come to look for America": The late 1950s and the 1960s -- "You can't be forever blessed": The 1970s -- "Born in the U.S.A.": The 1980s
Analysis Popular music Songs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264), discography (p. 265-270) , and index
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Subject Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
Popular culture -- United States -- History
Songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
Songs, English
Popular culture
Popular music
Volkstümliche Musik
Geschichte
Populaire muziek.
Nationalisme.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585270236
9780585270234