Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.
American Melodies is a study of America's varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in local communities. The author explores artists' ecological, social, and technological concerns and the ways that music as an art form can reflect upon and actively reshape lived realities. Through interviews and conversations, he examines how the spirit of jazz, folk music and Americana, country, and rock music brings to life relationships between people, connection with their communities, and expression of social and ecological concern.
| ISBN: | 9781666973792 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2026 |
| Author: | Robert McParland |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | For the Record : Studies in Rock and Popular Music |
| Genres: |
Music |
Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.
American Melodies is a study of America's varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in local communities. The author explores artists' ecological, social, and technological concerns and the ways that music as an art form can reflect upon and actively reshape lived realities. Through interviews and conversations, he examines how the spirit of jazz, folk music and Americana, country, and rock music brings to life relationships between people, connection with their communities, and expression of social and ecological concern.
American Melodies features in the following genres: Music
American Melodies is available in Hardback
American Melodies was written by Robert McParland and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
American Melodies has 248 pages
Yes it is part of For the Record : Studies in Rock and Popular Music series
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