| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music. By Michael Broyles. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. x, 387 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-10045-0.)

The romantic notion of an artist permanently skulking at society's borders has "special resonance in America," Michael Broyles contends in his new book, because "the historic lack of an infrastructure has pushed artists further to the societal margins" (p. 65). Yet, Broyles argues, since the colonial period the musician has ironically been both at the margins and at the center. To understand this phenomenon, Broyles turns his interpretative lens on William Billings, Anthony Heinrich, Charles Ives, Leo Ornstein, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, John Cage, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Frank Zappa, and Meredith Monk. Through each case study, often supplemented by additional figures, Broyles shows how the often ambivalent relationship between composers and audience limned the outlines of a society's own conception of itself.

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