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The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
The Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC), established in 1991, is a material repository covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to ...
Robert Mirabal renowned for his mastery of the Native American flute and for blending traditional Native American music. Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious, and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low ...
MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a 41-volume series of critical editions of American music, representing the full range of genres and idioms that have contributed to American musical culture. [1] It was established by the American Musicological Society in 1988 [2] and is hosted by the University of Michigan at its American Music ...
Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people, and is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole. [1] [2] What is and is not considered Americana is heavily influenced by national identity, historical context, patriotism and nostalgia.
In 2009, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music donated $500,000 to establish an endowment fund for the organization. [19] In January 2019, OHAM announced a new research guide entitled An African American Studies Critical Guide to Oral History of American Music. This guide was created by Clara Wilson-Hawkins.
It also received reviews from the African American Review, [4] Notes, [5] Educational Researcher, [6] Journal of Communication, [7] Publishers Weekly, [8] and Choice Reviews. [9] Black Noise received a 1995 American Book Award. [10] It has also been acknowledged as one of the first books to critically study hip-hop. [11]
Music Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It is based in England and published its first issue in 1982. Although the journal "is not produced on behalf of a society, it is closely associated with the Society for Music Analysis." [1]