| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Canada and the United States

Kenneth H. Marcus. Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xiii, 274. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.95.

"If Hollywood is a dream factory," writes Kenneth H. Marcus, "then Los Angeles musicians played an essential role in the production of those dreams" (p. 6). As the American century unfolded California played a greater role in defining the United States and music played a central role in this modern movement. The advent and proliferation of musical recording and transmission technology changed both the scale and scope of music within the country and with it broadened the cultural imperialism that came as a result. American music, primarily popular, became (arguably) world music. Los Angeles was at the center of this movement, argues Marcus, but unlike New York, Chicago, or even Atlanta and Nashville, the urban demographics of Los Angeles made the idea of a unified musical culture a misnomer; how could something so spread out be unified? This book argues that from the late nineteenth century until the 1940s the diverse nature of the city informed and identified its musical culture and in the process helped to define modern American musical culture.

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