America's Popular Music Traditions as `Canon-Fodder.'.

Provides information on a study which examined the popular music traditions of the United States and the exemption of American music education from the universities' music department curricula. History of the European perspective in the development of American music scholarship; Traditions of elite...

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Published in:	Popular Music & Society Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 55 - 90
Main Author:	Wicks, Sammie Ann
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Spring98
Subjects:	United States music Ethnomusicology Music conservatories United States
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Summary:	Provides information on a study which examined the popular music traditions of the United States and the exemption of American music education from the universities' music department curricula. History of the European perspective in the development of American music scholarship; Traditions of elite musical in the development of ethnomusicology; Information on the development of methodology in the history of academic ethnomusicology.