After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture Metaphysical & Visionary the 10 tracks here document

the 10 tracks here document the fascinating musical marriage between Africa and Cuba that has seen the original African rhythms brought to Cuba by slaves evolve and migrate back east across the ocean to influence a new generation of African music (and in the process produce offspring everywhere from Croatia to Portland

ISBN13: 9780785821946 ISBN10: 0785821945 Material Type: hardcover

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After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture Metaphysical & Visionary the 10 tracks here documentThrough portraits of four figuresCharles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah WebsterJoseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations. An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions