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Just as American culture has been constructed by people of many ethnicities, roots music in America is multicultural in nature. This volume presents influential musical cultures from throughout the multicultural history of American vernacular song.

(Hardback)

American folk music has provided a narrative thread to the fibre of the US since its earliest days. Forms ranging from New England sea shanties to Pennsylvania Dutch worksongs helped shape life in the Northeast. Appalachian ballads evolved in the South, as did slave spirituals that served as codes for the Underground Railroad.