| American Popular Music: Readings from the Popular Press Volume 2: The Age of Rock Contributor(s): Scheurer, Timothy E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0879724676 ISBN-13: 9780879724672 Publisher: Popular Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Social Science | Popular Culture - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 781.640 |
| LCCN: 89-062346 |
| Series: China Statistics Seris |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience as a young American traveler while pondering her role as an outsider in the cultures she temporarily inhabits. Her wanderlust fuels a strong, high-adventure story and, much in the vein of classic travel literature, Jones's picaresque tale of personal evolution informs her own transitions, rites of passage, and understandings of her place as a citizen of the world. With sharp insight and stylish prose, Jones asks: Is there a right or wrong way to travel? The Blind Masseuse concludes that there is, but that it's not always black and white. |