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American Melodies - Robert McParland

American Melodies

Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2026
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-6669-7379-2 (ISBN)
CHF 152,00 inkl. MwSt
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American Melodies is a study of America’s varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in communities.
Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.

American Melodies is a study of America’s varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in local communities. The author explores artists’ ecological, social, and technological concerns and the ways that music as an art form can reflect upon and actively reshape lived realities. Through interviews and conversations, he examines how the spirit of jazz, folk music and Americana, country, and rock music brings to life relationships between people, connection with their communities, and expression of social and ecological concern.

Robert McParland is Professor of English and the Humanities at Felician University, USA. He is a singer-songwriter who holds degrees in arts administration, literary studies, and cultural history. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Literature (2015), Citizen Steinbeck (2016), and Rock Music Imagination (2019), all published by Bloomsbury.

Acknowledgements
1. Music Community and the Ecological Turn
2. Popular Music and Gaia: Restoring the Earth
3. Rock Music: Environmental Concerns and Community
4. Folk Music Community
5. Jazz Community, Blues Scenes, and Gospel Music
6. Reinhabiting the City: Music and Social Action
7. Online Community in the Digital Information Age
8. Community Music
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.2.2026
Reihe/Serie For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10 1-6669-7379-3 / 1666973793
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-7379-2 / 9781666973792
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