Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz

by Gene Santoro

It's a clich that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that clich takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music crisscrosses the globe with ever greater speed, musicians seize what's useful, and expand their idioms more rapidly.
More and more since the 1960s, musicians, both in America and abroad, have shown an uncanny but consistent ability to draw inspiration from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098692
• ISBN13: 9780195098693
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"