| Description |
xxiii, 733 pages : music. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 679-706. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Puritan psalm singers -- New England reformers -- Singing dissenters -- African exiles -- Gentlemen amateurs -- Professional emigrants -- Native pioneers -- Progress and profit -- The genteel tradition -- The fasola folk -- Revivals and camp meetings -- The negro spirituals -- The Ethiopian business -- America's minstrel -- The exotic periphery -- Europe versus America -- A romantic bard -- The Boston classicists -- Nationalism and folklore -- Indian tribal music -- The rise of ragtime -- Singin' the blues -- The growth of jazz -- The Americanists -- The eclectics -- The traditionalists -- The experimentalists -- Twelve-tone composers -- In the orbit of Broadway -- Toward an American opera -- Composer from Connecticut |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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United States. |
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