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Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music.(Book Review)
Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music. By Michael Broyles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. [387 p. ISBN 0-300-10045-0. $40.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Michael Broyles's history of mavericks in American music attempts to document a paradox: a tradition of tradition-defying musicians in America. To do this, Broyles calls upon his considerable narrative skills and his experience with social histories of music; he has previously written Music of the Highest Class: Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), and edited the journals of Lowell Mason's year in Europe (A Yankee ...
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