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In the book It Still Moves, the author, Amanda Petrusich talks a lot about music and the styles of it. Petrusich is obviously interested in the different types of music and she shows it through her expressions and details of her life. In chapter one, for example, Amanda Petrusich talks about her life in Brooklyn, New York. She uses a lot of detail about the appearance of Brooklyn, as well as the smell, and the people that live there. She then talks about her interests in music, like the Delta Blues. In the ending of the chapter, she mentions the time where she chooses to leave New York in search of more music and learn more of their origin.

Amanda Petrusich mentions and asks a lot of music and about their origin. According to inquiry, Petrusich asks "where does the music come from?" and "why does it sound the way it is?" All of these questions have Petrusich even more interested in music. In chapter 4, Petrusich visits Graceland and learns a lot about the icon, Elvis Presley. In It Still Moves, Elvis Presley is described as an man that had controversies in his career, but in the end, even after his death, he is still remembered as an icon and a legend in rock 'n roll. Petrusich connects things that she sees in the Presley house with things in her house. For instance, she states that the kitchen in that house reminds her of her kitchen.

Another event that the book describes that has really turned things around involving music was the introduction of the radio. Before the invention of the radio, people from the rural area listened to music that was very unfamiliar to people in the urban areas. The radio has really changed things for the nation. After the 1930s, nearly every household in America had a radio to listen to music. Petrusich does a good job explaining the connection between the invention of the radio and the musical styles of certain areas before and after the radio was introduced. So far, I think Amanda Petrusich does a good job expressing the Americana music and how it revolutionized the nation.

MA