American music - the whole continent" vast, rich, still unexplored - here you can find the most unusual ways of composing music and the idea of ​ ​ what sound is. Explore it, lay trails, look for landmarks, draw maps for a long time. The book by Olga Manulkina, music historian and music critic, associate professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, tells about American avant-garde composers from A (yvza) to A (ladies) and the endless variety of American music of the 20th century.