Amanda Petrusich believes every good story is about traveling on the road; she mentions a couple famous authors like Mark Twain and John Steinbeck who wrote stories and adeventures about being on the road. She also has her own reasons for taking a road trip down south to uncover her questions of music and the meaning of Americana music. She believes “driving is both freeing and clarifying, you are steering your own journey, controlling in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure”, which is exactly what she is hoping to get out of her mission (Petrusich 18). Therefore, Amanda is using highways and country roads to create her own story as she looks for answers to her question about Americana music.
She looks at roads as an open pathway where she is free to take any route to make her own journey. Americana is something that represents America, what American is known for, and Amanda Petrusich believes the roads of America are a big part of America and represent America, from the eight lane highways to the small country roads. She plans on uncovering her questions about Americana music through the roads she travels on. She is going to use the roads to help her lead to a pathway where she can find answers to questions like how does the place we come from influence the music we listen to? This is she how she plans on using roads throughout her mission to answer her questions.
Amanda Petrusich realized that one major thing that helped spread and create Americana music was roads themselves. She explains how just by traveling down to the South to find out and understand Americana music, just that that drive down to the South, would help her uncover more than what she had expected. She believes that a road has more history and ideology than many other things in the United States. As she states "Every day, America's populace segregates and defines, marking neighborhoods and claiming territry, but our highways remain inherently shared experiences, both im memory and in present tense, all tax dollars and shit-spitting pothholes..." (). Petrusich explains that on the side of roads and highways, all you see are companies, taking control of territories, but on highways, there will always remain memories.
Amanda views roads as a way to understand the world around us. Each trip we take has with it a memory, and she believes that if she can run down these roads and highways down to their core meaning, she can find her answers. Such as the roads in the South; they are mostly all dirty roads or roads not even paved. These roads, as mentioned by many great authors have stored more history than expected. This is a great way to understand about Americana and where it originated, especially following the roads themselves.
The author, Amanda Petrusich believes that every good story about America is also a story about the road. She believes that she has to go to the South in order to learn more about the music she loves. One of her questions she wants the answer to is, "how is Americana music transforming to accomodate the massive cultural and geographical shifts in the American landscape?" Petrusich could have flown to the south to learn more about Americana music, but she chooses to take her car because the drive their and back is just as important. She says "Because every good story about America is also a story about the road"(17).
Petrusich believes that the journey on the roads to the south will uncover answers she is looking for and that she'll learn a lot about the south and Americana music driving. She believes that the roads of America are a big part of its history and they have their own stories. For example, she talks about the highway system that President Eisenhower came up with and which is a big part of our country today. Taking the roads to the south let Petrusich create her own journey. She says, "Driving is both freeing and clarifying; your are steering your own journey, controlling, in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure. It is the ultimate antidote to plain old life.
Amanda Petrusich explains how after President Eisenhower saw the German autobahn and its efficiency he decided to expand the roads in America so that all the major cities were connected. She uses the road as an example because she can hop onto a interstate highway and travel to anywhere in the country. The development of the road system was what allowed the music that is known as Americana today survive because without the music would have been regionally isolated and died out.
She was able to get onto the highway and leave New York City and go to Memphis, Tennessee to learn more about Americana music which is what she loved. Her goal was to learn about Americana music and what it meant but that would not have been possible without the road system being developed. The same concept of the roads leading to freedom has been used by many other authors. The roads allowed her to connect to the music that she wanted to learn about.
Amanda Petrusich uses the the highways and country roads to uncover music and the meaning of Americana in many ways. As she leaves Brooklyn and gets on these roads, she not only just drives to get to her destination, but she also looks around at the scenery and describes everything she sees. Petrusich also states, "Driving is both freeing and clarifying, you are steering your own journey, controlling in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure." (Petrusich 18). By saying this, it showed her reasoning for how the trip to the south on the highway is just as important as the reason for going to the south.
She explains how the roads of America are a part of the history of how music can become connected. She begins to talk about the highway system that President Eisenhower came up with. She talks about how the highway creates memories while the local roads are harmful in a way. However, Petrusich later talks about how the highways are somewhat boring but she enjoy driving on the older roads.The older roads in the south have more meaning to them and are more connected to history than the highways.
"Although it might sound obvious or naive, the easiest roads to romanticize- to love, to return to- are still the smaller, lesser-known passages"(20). Amanda Petrusich obviously traveled among these roads to discover more about Americana music, as she starts to leave her hometown ,Brooklyn, New York, to travel along the south. Petrusich also state that every good story about America is also a story about the road(17). In order to search for Americana, she would have to travel back in time or at least find the history of things that signify Americana.
"Where did it all come from?"(19) Petrusich asked about the road as she begin to explain. The road was built for the purpose of war. President Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to the Federal Aid Highway Act in order for roads to be built. The road was intended for troops to travel and the transportation of supplies if war were to break out in the United States. Eventually these roads are occupied now with civilians traveling for work or other purposes. Amanda Petrusich travel along the road for the purpose of learning more about Americana.
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ReplyDeleteAmanda Petrusich believes every good story is about traveling on the road; she mentions a couple famous authors like Mark Twain and John Steinbeck who wrote stories and adeventures about being on the road. She also has her own reasons for taking a road trip down south to uncover her questions of music and the meaning of Americana music. She believes “driving is both freeing and clarifying, you are steering your own journey, controlling in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure”, which is exactly what she is hoping to get out of her mission (Petrusich 18). Therefore, Amanda is using highways and country roads to create her own story as she looks for answers to her question about Americana music.
She looks at roads as an open pathway where she is free to take any route to make her own journey. Americana is something that represents America, what American is known for, and Amanda Petrusich believes the roads of America are a big part of America and represent America, from the eight lane highways to the small country roads. She plans on uncovering her questions about Americana music through the roads she travels on. She is going to use the roads to help her lead to a pathway where she can find answers to questions like how does the place we come from influence the music we listen to? This is she how she plans on using roads throughout her mission to answer her questions.
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Amanda Petrusich realized that one major thing that helped spread and create Americana music was roads themselves. She explains how just by traveling down to the South to find out and understand Americana music, just that that drive down to the South, would help her uncover more than what she had expected. She believes that a road has more history and ideology than many other things in the United States. As she states "Every day, America's populace segregates and defines, marking neighborhoods and claiming territry, but our highways remain inherently shared experiences, both im memory and in present tense, all tax dollars and shit-spitting pothholes..." (). Petrusich explains that on the side of roads and highways, all you see are companies, taking control of territories, but on highways, there will always remain memories.
ReplyDeleteAmanda views roads as a way to understand the world around us. Each trip we take has with it a memory, and she believes that if she can run down these roads and highways down to their core meaning, she can find her answers. Such as the roads in the South; they are mostly all dirty roads or roads not even paved. These roads, as mentioned by many great authors have stored more history than expected. This is a great way to understand about Americana and where it originated, especially following the roads themselves.
The author, Amanda Petrusich believes that every good story about America is also a story about the road. She believes that she has to go to the South in order to learn more about the music she loves. One of her questions she wants the answer to is, "how is Americana music transforming to accomodate the massive cultural and geographical shifts in the American landscape?" Petrusich could have flown to the south to learn more about Americana music, but she chooses to take her car because the drive their and back is just as important. She says "Because every good story about America is also a story about the road"(17).
ReplyDeletePetrusich believes that the journey on the roads to the south will uncover answers she is looking for and that she'll learn a lot about the south and Americana music driving. She believes that the roads of America are a big part of its history and they have their own stories. For example, she talks about the highway system that President Eisenhower came up with and which is a big part of our country today. Taking the roads to the south let Petrusich create her own journey. She says, "Driving is both freeing and clarifying; your are steering your own journey, controlling, in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure. It is the ultimate antidote to plain old life.
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Amanda Petrusich explains how after President Eisenhower saw the German autobahn and its efficiency he decided to expand the roads in America so that all the major cities were connected. She uses the road as an example because she can hop onto a interstate highway and travel to anywhere in the country. The development of the road system was what allowed the music that is known as Americana today survive because without the music would have been regionally isolated and died out.
ReplyDeleteShe was able to get onto the highway and leave New York City and go to Memphis, Tennessee to learn more about Americana music which is what she loved. Her goal was to learn about Americana music and what it meant but that would not have been possible without the road system being developed. The same concept of the roads leading to freedom has been used by many other authors. The roads allowed her to connect to the music that she wanted to learn about.
Amanda Petrusich uses the the highways and country roads to uncover music and the meaning of Americana in many ways. As she leaves Brooklyn and gets on these roads, she not only just drives to get to her destination, but she also looks around at the scenery and describes everything she sees. Petrusich also states, "Driving is both freeing and clarifying, you are steering your own journey, controlling in very physical and intellectual ways, your trajectory. The road contains the potential for change, for discovery, for adventure." (Petrusich 18). By saying this, it showed her reasoning for how the trip to the south on the highway is just as important as the reason for going to the south.
ReplyDeleteShe explains how the roads of America are a part of the history of how music can become connected. She begins to talk about the highway system that President Eisenhower came up with. She talks about how the highway creates memories while the local roads are harmful in a way. However, Petrusich later talks about how the highways are somewhat boring but she enjoy driving on the older roads.The older roads in the south have more meaning to them and are more connected to history than the highways.
"Although it might sound obvious or naive, the easiest roads to romanticize- to love, to return to- are still the smaller, lesser-known passages"(20). Amanda Petrusich obviously traveled among these roads to discover more about Americana music, as she starts to leave her hometown ,Brooklyn, New York, to travel along the south. Petrusich also state that every good story about America is also a story about the road(17). In order to search for Americana, she would have to travel back in time or at least find the history of things that signify Americana.
ReplyDelete"Where did it all come from?"(19) Petrusich asked about the road as she begin to explain. The road was built for the purpose of war. President Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to the Federal Aid Highway Act in order for roads to be built. The road was intended for troops to travel and the transportation of supplies if war were to break out in the United States. Eventually these roads are occupied now with civilians traveling for work or other purposes. Amanda Petrusich travel along the road for the purpose of learning more about Americana.