Americana

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Americana is written by Knut Holtsträter and published by Waxmann Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3830997566 (ISBN 10) and 9783830997566 (ISBN 13).

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. Situated at the intersection between musicology and American Studies, the essays focus on the categories of aesthetics, authenticity, and performance in order to show how popular music is made American-from Alaskan hip hop to German Schlager, from Creedence Clearwater Revival to film scores, from popular opera to U2, from the Rolling Stones to country rap, and from Steve Earle to the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.