Knut Holtsträter,
Sascha Pöhlmann
(Hrsg.)
Americana
Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music
2024, Populäre Kultur und Musik, Band 40, 234 Seiten, broschiert, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-4756-1
Mit Beiträgen von
Nassim Winnie Balestrini,
Martin Butler,
Frédéric Döhl,
Mario Dunkel,
Dietmar Elflein,
Julius Greve,
Knut Holtsträter,
Saskia Jaszoltowski,
Christofer Jost,
Frank Mehring,
Holly Patch,
Sascha Pöhlmann,
Daniel Stein
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.