{"product_id":"born-in-the-usa-timothy-e-scheurer-9781934110560","title":"Born in the U.S.A.: The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present","description":"This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, \u003ci\u003eBorn in the U.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo that the full and diverse narrative of this complex nation might be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints that are the text of America's story. Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the contemporary workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy E. Scheurer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934110566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934110560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Timothy E. Scheurer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014088503551,"sku":"9781934110560","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4931e99-e592-4aa9-a499-88363203f5cf.jpg?v=1767746649","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/born-in-the-usa-timothy-e-scheurer-9781934110560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}