In her book, It still moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American music by Amanda Petrusich, the author starts out by telling a story about her life in New York. She talks about how New York City seems so new to her everyday because it’s so big and She feels out of place living there. She transitions to talking about searching for the real American music. From the first chapter, one can observe that Petrusich asks herself lot of questions. She wanted to know about everything and why something is the way it is. She asks herself about what American music really is. This is reason she decides to take break from New York City and go down south in search of real American music. You also realize that when Petrusich visits the Graceland, she asks herself lots of different questions regarding Elvis Presley and his life.
Petrusich talks about lots of different artists and their music. Starting from Chapter one, she names and talks about different artists including Elvis Presley, John Lomax, Alan Lomax, etc. You would realize that when she talks about the artists, she shows respect to them. She talks about them in a well professional manner. She doesn’t express her feeling in all negative way, but she respects what the artists had to offer and what they were about.
Petrusich examines issues from multiple points of view. She does look at and consider other peoples’ ideas. She doesn’t just say she knows everything about Elvis Presley, she actually goes and visits Graceland and tries to find out more details about Elvis’s life. Another is example is how she lives in New York but always say people would have different opinions of living in this city. She also looks at other peoples’ views in music. She doesn’t take what she knows but she actually decides to travel and gain more knowledge about music.
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