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This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nations popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.S.A. shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen.So that the full and diverse narrative of this complex nation might be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints that are the text of Americas story. Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the contemporary workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history.
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Born in the U.S.A. : The Myth of America in Popular Music From Colonial Times to the Present Studies in Popular Culture (Jackson, Miss.)
author
:
Scheurer, Timothy E.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
:
0878054960
print isbn13
:
9780878054961
ebook isbn13
:
9780585270234
language
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English
subject
Popular music--United States--History and criticism, Popular culture--United States--History.
publication date
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1991
lcc
:
ML3477.S33 1991eb
ddc
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782.42164/1599
subject
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Popular music--United States--History and criticism, Popular culture--United States--History.
Page i
Born in the U.S.A.
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STUDIESIN POPULAR CULTURE M. Thomas Inge, General Editor
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Born in the U.S.A.
The Myth of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present
Timothy E. Scheurer
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Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Scheurer, Timothy E. Born in the U.S.A.: the myth of America in popular music from Colonial times to the present / Timothy E. Scheurer. p. cm. (Studies in popular culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-496-0. ISBN 0-87805-497-9 (pbk.) I. Popular music United States History and criticism. 2. United States Popular culture History. I. Title. II. Series: Studies in popu lar culture (Jackson, Miss.) ML3477.S33 1991 782.42164'1599 dc20 90-29114 CIP MN
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
FOR MY PARENTS RUTH A. AND ANDREW C. SCHEURER WITH LOVE AND GRATITUDE
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Contents
Preface
viii
Introduction
3
One "To Thee Sing Psalm Wil I": The Roots of the Myth in Puritan Music
6
Two "We Led Fair FREEDOM Hither": The Revolutionary War Era
24
Three "From Every Mountainside": From the Revolution to the Outbreak of the Civil War
39
Four "Who Shall Rule This American Nation?": The Civil War Era
65
Five "A Thoroughfare for Freedom Beat": From the End of the Civil War to the End of the Great War
86
Six "Of Thee I Sing, Baby": The Tin Pan Alley Years, 1920-1950
114
Seven "This Land Is Your Land": The Folk-Protest Movement and Other Voices, 1920-1960
138
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Eight "They've All Come to Look for America": The Late 1950s and the 1960s
166
Nine "You Can't Be Forever Blessed": The 1970s
197
Ten "Born in the U.S.A.": The 1980s
219
Conclusion
248
Bibliography
254
Discography
265
Index
271
Page viii
Preface
I selected Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." as the title for this book for a number of reasons. First, and perhaps most simply, I admire Mr. Springsteen and his music. His songs embody much of what I love about American music, because they resonate with the sounds of our rich musical heritage. In his songs one hears echoes: from the revolutionary broadside balladeers, who proudly claimed that they were Americans, from the socially engaged words of the Hutchinson family, from the sounds of protest of Woody Guthrie and later Bob Dylan. All these songwriters/performers, moreover, wrote music that spoke simultaneously of an abiding love for our country and concern over whether America was fulfilling its "true" destiny. Mr. Springsteen is an important link in that heritage.
Second, the song "Born in the U.S.A." sums up what I am trying to say about the myth of America in popular songat once a proud declaration of his American heritage and a critical indictment of the American way of life. It is a testament of the faith of Americans in the idea of America and how that faith has been rewarded. On the one hand, there are songs that paint a picture of us stretching our arms, like Jay Gatsby, toward an ineffable, unreachable green light of hope and possibilities; and, on the other hand, there are those songs that paint a picture of us standing there, like Gatsby outside Daisy Buchanan's house, looking out over nothing.
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