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Soft Serve By Daniel Tannehill Neely VIEW ONLINE "Either the ice cream man and his music are warmly symbolic of “Main Street USA,” an idealized, mythic space resistant to objective curiosity; or ice cream truck music is a scourge on the urban soundscape, produce by tin-eared engineers whose saccharine and invasive noiseboxes drive neighborhoods to distraction. Neither approach seems particularly informative.” A musicologist combed archives and spoke with a number of truck drivers and inventors to chart the evolution of that perennial summer anthem, the ice cream truck jingle. Daniel Tannehill Neely is a Ph.D candidate in ethnomusicology at New York University, where he is writing his dissertation on Jamaican mento music and its relationship to cultural nationalism.
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Esopus 4 (Spring 2005)
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