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Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. University of California Press, 2008. www.ucpress.edu; (800) 777-4726. 312 pp. $24.95.
Charles H. Garrett, assistant professor of musicology at the University of Michigan and editor in chief of the Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, has written an unusual, challenging and scholarly book that deserves a place of honor in writings about American music. On the book's back cover, a short description by the publisher provides a summary of the book's contents, but I would say that describing it as, "Lucidly written for a wide audience ... " is inaccurate. Yes, the writing is lucid, but the audience, in my opinion, is mainly scholars and musicologists in the field of American music.
The book includes 34 pages of 560 endnotes, a 17-page bibliography and a comprehensive index. The endnotes are not just clear source citations, but often contain important comments that require a slow, careful reading. According to the author, several of the chapters in this book took their initial shape in his dissertation. Other portions were presented at scholarly meetings, and the fourth chapter was previously published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. There are quotes from numerous dissertations as well as recent Internet sources.
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