In the beginning of Amanda Petrusich's book It still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, she talks about this thing called Americana. She describes it in two different ways. The first: is Americana Music. It's a type of music that is instilled with its surroundings. There is no set sound or style to Americana, its, if you will, a free form type of music. The other is: The good ole' American way of life, apple pie, and the factory worker, etc.. She very briefly described this type.
Amanda started off her journey into the search of Americana in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing style is very detailed and vivid. She makes you feel as if you are with her through-out her journey. She also talks a lot about history, which also really gives us a boat-load of information, to help us with understanding this Americana.
She also asks many questions through-out the first few chapters. This gives us something to cling onto, so we can get the answers for the questions. Amanda starts heading to the south to figure out the roots and start answering her questions, like: How are Collective ideas of Americana changing? Where did they start? As she chugs along the interstate, she starts talking about different books in history, how the highway system came about, and other things. Her writing style much different than anything I have ever seen. It's very unique.
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