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Book Review


Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music. By Ronald Radano. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xx, 417 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-226-70197-2. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-70198-0.)
In this thoroughly researched book, Ronald Radano questions the certitudes of African American music scholarship, arguing that many analyses are mired in a web of racial essentialisms. As a corrective, Radano traces the development of black music as sonic force and social construct from the colonial period to the early twentieth century, offering along the way a means by which to "retrospectively map a new history of black music and reconsider the trajectory of American music at large" (p. 2). . . .
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