| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular. By Catherine Parsons Smith. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 376 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25139-7.)

Catherine Parsons Smith's Making Music in Los Angeles is a valuable contribution to our understanding of various musical practices during the rapid rise to prominence of Los Angeles, from the late nineteenth century (when it was still a second-tier city) to World War II. Partly because Los Angeles's spectacular rise runs parallel to that of the United States, and partly because of the importance of this period for America's maturation as a nation, the stories Smith tells have broad implications for the larger topic of music-making in the United States, especially in its cities, where a large number of diverse musical practices could be launched and, often, sustained.

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