Beethoven permeates American culture. His image appears on
countless busts and coffee mugs; his music is heard in movie
scores, TV soundtracks, commercials, and pop songs; he is Schroeder
s god in Peanuts and Chuck Berry s freaked-out parent in "Roll over
Beethoven." In this book, Michael Broyles seeks to understand the
composer as he exists in the American imagination and explores how
Beethoven became a cultural icon. Broyles examines Beethoven s
appearance in a variety of contexts: American commercialism, the
Afrocentrist and black power movements, and the modernist critique
of Romanticism. He considers portrayals of Beethoven in American
film and theater and the uses of his music in film scores, as well
as references to Beethoven and his music in disco, country, rock,
and rap. In the end, he shows that to examine Beethoven on American
soil is to examine America itself."
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