Digest: Here’s something I enjoyed that you might enjoy, too.

Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and consequences: the perception of and resistance to hegemonic structures from within their respective constituencies, the definition of national identity, and the understanding of the ‘American Dream.’

Here’s a book I meant to read forever ago and only picked up this year.

Highly recommend. Dr. Shonekan is a wonderful writer and teacher.