...This chapter discusses the increasingly complicated and fluid associations of jazz's “American” identity. It studies some of the ways that jazz musicians displayed or represented “Americanness”—through professional strategy, musical style, and subjective identity—at the start of the twenty-first...

... that is in the process of becoming as distinctive a way of being American as is the Texan regional identity. American identity regional identity Texas Arizona cultural change and dynamics Atlantic Americans civil society behaviors Bellah Robert N Habits of the Heart European immigration family values Habits...

...-divide Afrocentrism Black environmentalism African American identity soul food vegetarianism community health environmental literacy “I’d like to offer a kudos to my nephew, who was just honored as student of the month at his high school,” said Veronica Kyle during a Faith in Place staff meeting...

... heritage while residing in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Paris, France. Listening to the blues and staging blues performance in his literature pushes Baldwin and his readers into a confrontation with African American identity. Looking at these two writers in concert with their counterparts in the United...

...This book examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections...

...This chapter muses on the proper balance between love of one's own ethnic or religious identity and loyalty to the larger public American identity. It recognizes that the multiculturalism of today aims, at least in rhetoric, at something different—inclusion and success, not separation...

... nativism non Hispanic whites “American dream” behaviors English language English language dominance individualism nativism new personal responsibility in American identity work ethic affiliation American identity cultural identity Latino Latino identity loyalty to the US Latino US born...

... different and opposing perspectives on America. It also examines the debates on American identity and American music, concluding that no history of music, American or otherwise, can be complete without keeping the relations of power in mind. historiography Ives Charles Adams John Danielpour Richard...

...This book shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive “American sound” and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul...

...The new immigration to the United States is unprecedented in its diversity of color, class, and cultural origins. Over the past few decades, the racial and ethnic composition and stratification of the American population—as well as the social meanings of race, ethnicity, and American identity—have...

... a different facet of American identity through sound....