Amer Musical Life PA

by Crawford,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780393327267
• ISBN10: 0393327264
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

When it comes to American music, America's Musical Life is "the best one-volume history yet on the subject for musicians and enthusiasts, professional or amateur" (Kirkus Reviews). "Well-researched and sensitively constructed" (Library Journal) and "a book that welcomes the reader, who is happy to keep returning for more" (Music Library Association Notes), America's Musical Life tells the story of American music making in rich detail. In chronicling American music's bountiful heritage, this "superb book presents the whole sweep of U.S. cultivated and traditional music'”from 16th-century Native American music through late 20th-century hiphop culture." A substantial cultural achievement, "this definitive history of music in the U.S. is sure to delight music aficionados and history buffs alike, and is a must for anyone interested in what music has meant to America and what America has meant to music" (Publishers Weekly).

Author Biography

Richard Crawford, Hans T. David Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, has published ten books on American music

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Part One THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES
The First Song: Native American Music	3	(12)
European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making	15	(14)
From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music	29	(27)
``Old, Simple Ditties'': Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making	56	(27)
Performing ``By Particular Desire'': Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music	83	(19)
Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America	102	(23)
Correcting ``the Harshness of Our Singing'': New England Psalmody Reformed	125	(14)
Part Two THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason	139	(17)
Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music	156	(17)
``Be It Ever So Humble'': Theater and Opera, 1800--1860	173	(23)
Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage	196	(25)
Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry	221	(19)
From Ramparts to Romance: Parlor Songs, 1800--1865	240	(32)
Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s	272	(21)
From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music	293	(21)
From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry	314	(17)
A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana	331	(20)
Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach	351	(21)
Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism	372	(15)
``Travel in the Winds'': Native American Music from 1820	387	(20)
``Make a Noise!'': Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s	407	(22)
Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century	429	(24)
Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph	453	(18)
``After the Ball'': The Rise of Tin Pan Alley	471	(24)
Part Three THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
``To Stretch Our Ears'': The Music of Charles Ives	495	(29)
``Come On and Hear'': The Early Twentieth Century	524	(33)
The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody	557	(23)
``The Birthright of All of Us'': Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression	580	(17)
``All That Is Native and Fine'': American Folk Song and Its Collectors	597	(22)
From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National	619	(22)
``Crescendo in Blue'': Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band	641	(23)
The Golden Age of the American Musical	664	(25)
Classical Music in the Postwar Years	689	(25)
``Rock Around the Clock'': The Rise of Rock and Roll	714	(22)
Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends	736	(19)
Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence	755	(23)
Melting Pot or Pluralism?: Popular Music and Ethnicity	778	(21)
From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music	799	(14)
Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s	813	(24)
Black Music and American Identity	837	(16)
Epilogue	853	(8)
Notes	861	(36)
Bibliography	897	(28)
Credits	925	(6)
Index	931