In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L. Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship. Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage's role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal identity; and the ways cultural and ethnographic circumstances determine the music that emerges fro...

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This is a book detailing my journey through the COVID lockdown and how, with the help of building a hide, I was able to continue my love of photography and nature during the pandemic. The Lockdown Hide contains photographs of birds that visit the hide on a regular basis, namely 35 different species so far.I consider myself an amateur photographer as I have only been taking photographs for about 6-7 years. I have a love for nature which pans back to when I was able to get out into t...