Amanda Petrusich’s It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and The Search For the Nest American Music seems to demonstrate aspects of a series of journal entries. Which is important for any inquiry. Petrusich’s curiosity of Americana music has brought up her inspiration to investigate its derivation and influence. How did Petrusich start to organize on where to start and how did she conceive her own perspective of Americana? As she states in the author’s note, “Americana is a broad and varied beast—this is simply my understanding of its story”(xi).
Why was acoustic folk music ever subverting when that type of music is a cultural aspect of the Americana? One would think that it would be popular or mainstream in our modern time if it contributes so much to our culture and its past. Could it be that folk, country, or blues are the ancestor and rap, hip-hop, and rock are the offspring? It may not be that those types of music is disappearing but more of musical evolution.
It is interesting to find that Petrusich is learning and inquiring every step and mile on the way. Her destination is not really an official place where she can acquire her answers but more of the process of getting there and planning at the moment of what to do and where to go next. For example, she decides to head south, very broad but knows that’s where answers can be found. It seems that Petrusich chose to drive rather than taking a train or plane because the stops, here and there was probably important to her research. The relationship between “the road” and history plays a significant role in music. The author states that road stories are interesting experiences and it “makes the finest fodder” (18). She leads on to some music were made from the road. Which comes to the point that some of her motives and questions about Americana can be answered from the road. The road, or which also can be a process to getting there or anywhere.
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