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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gilbert Chase |
ISBN: | 0252062752 9780252062759 |
OCLC Number: | 751142919 |
Description: | xxiv, 712 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | The musical Puritans -- Conflict and reform -- Dissenters and minority sects -- The African presence -- Gentlemen amateurs -- European professionals -- American pioneers -- Progress, profit, and uplift -- The genteel tradition -- The fasola folk -- Revival hymns and spiritual songs -- The Negro spirituals -- The Ethiopian business -- America's minstrel -- Romantic Americanism -- Exotic romanticism -- Europe versus America -- Music for the millions -- Decorum and diversity -- On with the show -- New England again -- The Native Americans -- The rise of ragtime -- Composer from Connecticut -- The ultramodern movement -- New American mix -- Everywhere the Blues -- Jazz: tradition and transformation -- The pit and the proscenium -- Toward an American opera -- The grand tradition -- Creative systems -- Innovation and experiment -- Country to rock -- with soul. |
Series Title: | Music in American life. |
Responsibility: | Gilbert Chase ; with a foreword by Richard Crawford ; and a discographical essay by William Brooks. |
Abstract:
A history of American music, its diversity, and the cultural influences that helped it develop.
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"Every student and scholar of the subject is indebted to this landmark book, in countless ways." -- Charles Hamm, in Music in the New World
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