I (Don’t) Hear America Singing: The List of Songs Americans Should Know and Sing

In this paper I discuss an instance in which US musical culture was diagnosed, as it were, with an illness, and a prescription was suggested for its cure. I explore the range of responses to the diagnosis and the prescription, locating in them some of the central contentions of American musical cul...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Russell, Melinda
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: European journal of American studies 2011
Rochtain ar líne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Achoimre:In this paper I discuss an instance in which US musical culture was diagnosed, as it were, with an illness, and a prescription was suggested for its cure. I explore the range of responses to the diagnosis and the prescription, locating in them some of the central contentions of American musical culture. In the July 1995 Music Educators Journal, Music Educators National Conference (MENC, now the National Association for Music Education) President Will Schmid asked his readers, “Remember Rache...