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| Title | : | Crossroads: The Muliticultural Roots of America's Popular Music |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.90 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0131930737 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
Hip-Hop and Rap.For anyone interested in American Popular Music. The Ethnic and Racial Roots of Rock 'n' Roll. The Urban Folk Revival. Gospel. Country. The Roots of African American Music Traditions. Cajun and Zydeco. Jazz. Native American Music Traditions. It features a blended historical/social, ethnic, and musical approach; strongcontemporaryfocus; and coverage of a wide variety of musicalstyles.Music in Multicultural America. The Blues. Tejano, Banda, and Contemporary Mexican. The Roots of European/Anglo-American Music Traditions. Asian American Music. . From the
Primarily for courses in American music, popular music, or rock music; and also appropriate for courses in ethnic studies. This textbook is the result of her work developing materials for that course.. Soon her classes were filled with enthusiastic students who had enrolled on the recommendation of former students, friends and counselors. The traditional survey course had averaged anywhere from 40 to 60 students per year; in 2005-06, the capped annual enrollment was at 1,250. Elizabeth Barkley wrote this book to meet the needs of today's more diverse student population. Returning to the classroom after nine years as an academic Dean, she was aware of the student demographic changes, but unprepared for the pedagogical implications of those changes. As she struggled to engage her students in a traditional music survey course, they looked bored and apathetic and it was then that she knew she had to find a better way. As a result, she created a new course called The Musics of Multicultural America, based on her analysis that an important characteristic that seemed to unify her students was "Americanness." Working with UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of American Cultures,
Patricia Cross and Claire Howell Major, Jossey-Bass, 2004), the earlier edition of Crossroads: Popular Music in America (Prentice Hall, 2003), and a three-volume series, Great Composers and Music Masterpieces of Western Civilization (co-authored with Robert Hartwell, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2001 and 2002). Additionally, the California Virtual Campus selected her course Music of Multicultural America as the Best Online Cou
Lawrence F. said Great for my required college class. Just what I needed for class and it also comes with a compact disc This is also perfect textbook for multicultural music for the required college course.. Check out the research for more accuracy. Irelandawaits The author of this book makes a lot of statements that I do not agree with. The author cites many of the references that I have also read and somehow, although we have read the same information, I have taken away something different. We are using this as a college text . Amazon Customer said got this book for school. it's an interesting book. got this book for school. it's an interesting book. not too hard to understand and read. don't really know what else to say. it's a college book class.
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