Research Catalog

Title

America's musical life : a history / Richard Crawford.

Author

Crawford, Richard, 1935-

Publication

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2005, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xvi, 976 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, music; 24 cm.

Summary

"From the music of Native Americans and the arrival of Europeans on North American shores to the work of Duke Ellington, Philip Glass, and Run-D.M.C., America's Musical Life offers a historical panorama as diverse and wide-ranging in spirit as the American people themselves. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Norton paperback

Uniform Title

Norton paperback.

Subject

• Music > United States > History and criticism

Note

• Originally published: 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 897-923) and index.

Contents

Part 1. The First Three Centuries -- 1. The First Song: Native American Music -- 2. European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making -- 3. From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music -- 4. "Old, Simple Ditties": Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making -- 5. Performing "By Particular Desire": Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music -- 6. Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America -- 7. Correcting "the Harshness of Our Singing": New England Psalmody Reformed -- Part 2. The Nineteenth Century -- 8. Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason -- 9. Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music -- 10. "Be It Ever So Humble": Theater and Opera, 1800-1860 -- 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage -- 12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry -- 13. From Ramparts to Romance: Parlor Songs, 1800-1865 -- 14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s -- 15. From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music -- 16. From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry -- 17. A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana -- 18. Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach -- 19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism -- 20. "Travel in the Winds": Native American Music from 1820 -- 21. "Make a Noise!": Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s -- 22. Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century -- 23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph -- 24. "After the Ball": The Rise of Tin Pan Alley -- Part 3. The Twentieth Century -- 25. "To Stretch Our Ears": The Music of Charles Ives -- 26. "Come On and Hear": The Early Twentieth Century -- 27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody -- 28. "The Birthright of All of Us": Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression -- 29. "All That Is Native and Fine": American Folk Song and Its Collectors -- 30. From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National -- 31. "Crescendo in Blue": Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band -- 32. The Golden Age of the American Musical -- 33. Classical Music in the Postwar Years -- 34. "Rock Around the Clock": The Rise of Rock and Roll -- 35. Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends -- 36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence -- 37. Melting Pot or Pluralism?: Popular Music and Ethnicity -- 38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music -- 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s -- 40. Black Music and American Identity.

ISBN

• 0393327264 (pbk.)
• 9780393327267 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm60964695
• SCSB-5427638

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries