ETHNIC MUSIC OF NORTH AMERICA MUSIC AT THE URBAN FOLK FESTIVAL Performing Ethnicity in Pittsburgh The festival symbolizes Pittsburgh’s ethnicity and not the ethnicity of individual communities. Festivals and Ethnic Music Today The folk festivals provide one of the most powerful metaphors for the music of ethnic North America. The processes of ethnic transformation are acutely present in the music that we encounter at a folk festival. Music must change to fit the conditions …showed first 75 words of 768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 768 total…diversity. SOCIAL STRUCTURE/MUSICAL STRUCTURE Music and Religious Community Religion reinforces ethnicity while becoming itself the beneficiary of the pasrticulsrizing force of music. Mass-Mediated Ethnicity MUSIC AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY Religious Music The Chicago Blues The Art Music of African-Americans Chicago Jazz Music Festivals in Chicago CONTEMPORARY AND POPULAR ETHNIC MUSICS Of World’s Fairs and Disney Worlds German-American music at Disney World The Modernity of Traditional Music ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** ENCYCLOPEDIA DOMI VOLUME II,ATHENS: 1996