Paul Simon An American Tune is the first fullscale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teenybopper rocker in the late 1950s Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960sampmdashSimon ampamp Garfunkelampmdashand after their breakup in 1970 launch one of the most successful varied and surprising solo careers of our time. In Paul Simon An American Tune Cornel Bonca considers Simonamprsquos vast trove of songs in the biographical and cultural context in which he wrote them from the pop cultural revolution of the 1960s which Simon himself helped to create the singersongwriter movement of the 1970s the turn toward world music in the 1980s that gave the world the monumental Graceland to the intimate personal turn his music took in the millennial era. Analyzing Simonamprsquos albums one by one often song by song Bonca provides a deep and artful exploration of the work of one of todayamprsquos major songwriters.Offering a lucid and vivid portrait of an astonishing decadeslong career Paul Simon An American Tune will interest a wide audience from Simon fans to students and scholars of American popular culture.