This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as
reflected in the nation's 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
America's 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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