The Music of Multicultural America - Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States

Explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York, to Arab music in Detroit, to West Indian steelbands in Brooklyn, to Kathak music and dance in California, to powwows in the midwestern plains, to Hispanic musics of the Southwest borderlands.