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This concise accessible text describes American music as a panorama of distinct yet parallel streams hip hop and Latin folk and country gospel and classical jazz blues and rock that reflect the uniquely diverse character of the United States Comparing and contrasting musical styles across regions and time the author delivers a vision of American music both exuberant and inventive a music that arises out of the history and musical traditions of the many immigrants to America s shores This concise accessible text describes American music as a panorama of distinct yet parallel streams hip hop and Latin folk and country gospel and classical jazz blues and rock that reflect the uniquely diverse character of the United States Comparing and contrasting musical styles across regions and time the author delivers ...a vision of American music both exuberant and inventive a music that arises out of the history and musical traditions of the many immigrants to America s shores
