| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music. By Jack Sullivan. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xx, 262 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-300-07231-7.)

Lively, discursive, opinionated, and engaging, Jack Sullivan's New World Symphonies is about the influence of American culture, embodied in music and literature, on European composers and writers. Sullivan's subtitle—How American Culture Changed European Music—is important because it indicates the breadth of his approach and hints at its vagueness. By American culture, for instance, Sullivan means the idea and the ideal of America, especially as these are expressed in its "purest, ideal form," American music. For him, America, open and democratic, is "better emotionally" than other places; America is not primarily a geographic place but a "construct in the minds of men," one so appealing that when European composers "fall for America," and they continue to do so today, they fall with a "special obsessiveness" and "sense of discovery." . . .

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