American Music A Panorama, Concise Edition

by Candelaria, Lorenzo; Kingman, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780495128397
• ISBN10: 0495128392
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This best-selling survey text describes American music as a panorama of distinct yet parallel streams-popular, folk, sacred, and classical-that reflect the uniquely diverse character of the United States. Comparing and contrasting musical styles across regions and time, Candelaria and Kingman deliver a vision of American music both exuberant and inventive, a music that arises out of the history and musical traditions of the many immigrants to America's shores.

Table of Contents

Author's Guide to the Panorama of American Music	xv
Part I Folk and Ethnic Musics	2	(86)
The Anglo-Celtic-American Tradition	4	(13)
Imported Ballads	4	(2)
``Barbara Allen'' (H. J. Beeker)	5	(1)
Features Common to Most Ballads	6	(2)
Naturalized Ballads	8	(2)
``Gypsy Davy'' (Woody Guthrie)	8	(2)
Native Ballads	10	(2)
``John Hardy'' (The Carter Family)	10	(2)
Print and the Ballad	12	(1)
Fiddle Tunes	13	(1)
``Soldier's Joy'' (Marion Sumner)	13	(1)
Print and the Fiddle Tune	13	(1)
Play-Party Songs	14	(2)
``Old Man at the Mill'' (Clint Howard, Fred Price, Doc Watson)	14	(2)
Projects	16	(1)
Additional Listening	16	(1)
The African American Tradition	17	(13)
African Music and Its Relation to Black Music in America	17	(2)
``Music in Praise of a Yoruba Chief'' (Nigeria)	18	(1)
Religious Folk Music: The Spiritual	19	(4)
``Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know the Road'' (Bessie Jones, Sea Island Singers)	19	(2)
``Jacob's Ladder'' (Paul Robeson)	21	(2)
Secular Folk Music	23	(5)
``Quittin' Time Song'' (Samuel Brooks)	23	(2)
``John Henry'' (Arthur Bell)	25	(3)
Projects	28	(1)
Additional Listening	29	(1)
The American Indian Tradition	30	(14)
Music in Indian Life	31	(1)
The Existential Quality of Songs	32	(1)
Types of Songs According to Purpose	33	(4)
``Pigeon's Dream Song'' (Louis Pigeon, vocal; Menominee, Northern Plains)	35	(1)
``Cherokee/Creek Stomp Dance'' (Eastern Woodlands)	35	(1)
``Butterfly Dance'' (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico)	36	(1)
``Sioux Love Song'' (John Coloff, flute & vocal; Lakota Plains)	36	(1)
Characteristics of Indian Music	37	(1)
Indian Music and Acculturation	38	(4)
``Ghost Dance Song'' (Pawnee Plains)	40	(1)
``Rabbit Dance'' (Los Angeles Northern Singers)	41	(1)
Projects	42	(1)
Additional Listening	43	(1)
Latino Traditions	44	(17)
The Legacy of the Spanish Conquest	44	(1)
Sacred Music from Mexico	44	(4)
``Al Pie de Este Santo Altar'' (Luis Montoya, vocal; Vincente Padilla, pito)	46	(1)
``Los Pastores'' from Las Posadas (Franquilino Miranda and group)	47	(1)
Secular Music from Mexico	48	(9)
``Las Abajenas'' (Mariachi Cobre)	50	(3)
``El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez'' (Los Hermanos Banda)	53	(2)
``Mal Hombre'' (Lydia Mendoza)	55	(2)
The Caribbean and South America	57	(2)
``Para los Rumberos'' (Tito Puente)	58	(1)
Projects	59	(1)
Additional Listening	60	(1)
Diverse Traditions: French, Scandinavian, Arab, and Asian	61	(14)
The French Influence in Louisiana	61	(4)
``Midland Two-Step'' (Michael Doucet, Beausoleil)	62	(2)
``Zydeco sont pas sale'' (Clifton Chenier)	64	(1)
The Scandinavian Influence in the Upper Midwest	65	(2)
``Banjo, Old Time'' (LeRoy Larson, Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble)	66	(1)
Arab American Traditions	67	(2)
``Zaffat al-Hilu'' (Majid Kakka, Bells Band)	68	(1)
The Asian Influence	69	(5)
``Tampopo'' (Nobuko Miyamoto)	72	(2)
Projects	74	(1)
Additional Listening	74	(1)
Folk Music as an Instrument of Advocacy	75	(13)
``The Farmer Is the Man That Feeds Them All'' (Fiddlin' John Carson)	75	(2)
The Urban Folk Song Movement of the 1930s and 1940s	77	(4)
``I Am a Union Woman'' (Aunt Molly Jackson)	78	(3)
Protest and Folk Song in the 1960s	81	(3)
``Masters of War'' (Bob Dylan)	81	(3)
Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement in the South	84	(2)
``We Shall Overcome'' (SNCC)	85	(1)
Projects	86	(1)
Additional Listening	87	(1)
Part II Three Offspring of the Rural South	88	(58)
Country Music	90	(22)
Enduring Themes	90	(1)
The ``Country Sound''	91	(2)
Commercial Beginnings: Early Recordings, Radio, and the First Stars	93	(2)
Jimmy Rodgers: The Father of Country Music	95	(1)
``Muleskinner Blues'' (Jimmie Rodgers)	95	(1)
The West: Cowboys, Honky-Tonks, and Western Swing	96	(4)
``Cotton-Eyed Joe'' (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)	99	(1)
Postwar Dissemination and Full-Scale Commercialization	100	(8)
``I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'' (Hank Williams)	101	(2)
``I'm Blue Again'' (Patsy Cline)	103	(3)
``Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'' (Willie Nelson)	106	(2)
The Persistence and Revival of Traditional Styles	108	(3)
``Muleskinner Blues'' (Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys)	108	(2)
``John Henry'' (The Lilly Brothers)	110	(1)
Projects	111	(1)
Additional Listening	111	(1)
The Blues	112	(16)
Characteristics of the Blues	112	(7)
``Countin' the Blues'' (Ma Rainey and Her Georgia Jazz Band)	116	(1)
``Prison Cell Blues'' (Blind Lemon Jefferson)	117	(2)
``Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)'' (Robert Johnson)	119	(1)
Early Published Blues	119	(1)
Classic Blues	120	(1)
Blues and Jazz	121	(1)
Boogie-Woogie	122	(2)
``Mr. Freddie Blues'' (Meade ``Lux'' Lewis)	123	(1)
Selling the Country Blues	124	(1)
Urban Blues	124	(1)
Blues at the Turn of the Century	125	(2)
``Texas Flood'' (Stevie Ray Vaughan)	126	(1)
Projects	127	(1)
Additional Listening	127	(1)
Rock Music	128	(18)
Rock's Ties to Rhythm and Blues	128	(3)
``Good Rockin' Tonight'' (Wynonie Harris)	129	(1)
``Rock Around the Clock'' (Bill Haley and His Comets)	130	(1)
Reaching White Audiences	131	(1)
The Influence of Country Music	132	(2)
``That's All Right'' (Elvis Presley)	133	(1)
Trends from the 1960s to the Present	134	(10)
``Good Vibrations'' (The Beach Boys)	136	(3)
``The Star-Spangled Banner (Live at Woodstock)'' (Jimi Hendrix)	139	(2)
``Eruption'' (Van Halen)	141	(1)
``Sheena Is a Punk Rocker'' (The Ramones)	142	(2)
Projects	144	(1)
Additional Listening	145	(1)
Part III Popular Sacred Music	146	(42)
From Psalm Tune to Rural Revivalism	148	(20)
Psalmody in America	148	(4)
``Amazing Grace'' (Congregation of the Old Regular Baptist Church)	151	(1)
The Singing-School Tradition	152	(6)
``Chester'' (The Old Sturbridge Singers)	154	(3)
``Amity'' (The Old Sturbridge Singers)	157	(1)
The Frontier and Rural America in the Nineteenth Century	158	(7)
``Wondrous Love'' (Anonymous 4)	160	(5)
Music Among Smaller Independent American Sects	165	(1)
``'Tis the Gift to Be Simple'' (The United Society of Shakers)	166	(1)
Projects	166	(1)
Additional Listening	167	(1)
Urban Revivalism and Gospel Music	168	(20)
Urban Revivalism After the Civil War: The Moody-Sankey Era of Gospel Hymns	168	(3)
``In the Sweet By-and-By'' (The Harmoneion Singers)	170	(1)
The Billy Sunday---Homer Rodeheaver Era: Further Popularization	171	(2)
``Brighten the Corner Where You Are'' (Homer Rodeheaver)	171	(2)
Gospel Music After the Advent of Radio and Recordings	173	(13)
``Give the World a Smile'' (The Stamps Quartet)	174	(3)
``He Got Better Things for You'' (Memphis Sanctified Singers)	177	(4)
``Swing Down, Chariot'' (Golden Gate Quartet)	181	(5)
Projects	186	(1)
Additional Listening	187	(1)
Part IV Popular Secular Music	188	(58)
Secular Music in the Cities from Colonial Times to the Age of Andrew Jackson	190	(13)
Concerts and Dances	190	(3)
``The College Hornpipe'' (Rodney Miller)	191	(2)
Bands and Military Music	193	(2)
``Lady Hope's Reel'' (American Fife Ensemble)	194	(1)
``Washington's March'' (The Liberty Tree Wind Players)	194	(1)
Musical Theater	195	(4)
``Chorus of Adventurers'' from The Indian Princess (Federal Music Society Opera)	197	(2)
Popular Song	199	(2)
``Junto Song'' (Seth McCoy)	200	(1)
Projects	201	(1)
Additional Listening	202	(1)
Popular Musical Theater and Opera from the Jacksonian Era to the Present	203	(19)
Minstrelsy and Musical Entertainment Before the Civil War	204	(5)
``De Boatman's Dance'' (Ensemble)	206	(3)
From the Civil War Through the Turn of the Century	209	(3)
``The Yankee Doodle Boy'' (Richard Perry)	211	(1)
The First Half of the Twentieth Century	212	(1)
The Musical in Its Maturity: Show Boat to West Side Story	212	(4)
``Cool'' West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)	215	(1)
The Musical Since West Side Story	216	(1)
Opera in America	217	(4)
``It Ain't Necessarily So'' (Lawrence Tibbett)	218	(3)
Projects	221	(1)
Additional Listening	221	(1)
Popular Song, Dance, and March Music from the Jacksonian Era to the Advent of Rock	222	(24)
Popular Song from the 1830s Through the Civil War	222	(9)
``Get Off the Track'' (The Hutchinson Family Singers)	225	(3)
``Hard Times Come Again No More'' (The Hutchinson Family Singers)	228	(2)
``The Battle Cry of Freedom'' (George Shirley)	230	(1)
Popular Song from the Civil War Through the Ragtime Era	231	(6)
The Band in America After the Jacksonian Era	237	(4)
``The Washington Post March'' (Advocate Brass Band)	239	(2)
Popular Song from Ragtime to Rock	241	(2)
``Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?'' (Bing Crosby)	242	(1)
Tin Pan Alley and Its Relation to Jazz and Black Vernacular Music	243	(1)
The Decline of Tin Pan Alley and the Dispersion of the Popular Music Industry	244	(1)
Projects	244	(1)
Additional Listening	245	(1)
Part V Jazz and Its Forerunners	246	(34)
Ragtime and Precursors of Jazz	248	(13)
The Context of Ragtime from Its Origins to Its Zenith	245	(7)
``Hello! My Baby'' (Don Meehan, Dave Corey)	245	(7)
The Musical Characteristics of Ragtime	252	(1)
``Maple Leaf Rag'' (Scott Joplin)	252	(1)
The Decline and Dispersion of Ragtime	253	(2)
``If Dreams Come True'' (James P. Johnson)	254	(1)
The Ragtime Revival	255	(1)
Precursors of Jazz	256	(3)
``Eternity'' (Eureka Brass Band)	259	(1)
``Just a Little While to Stay Here'' (Eureka Brass Band)	259	(1)
Projects	259	(1)
Additional Listening	260	(1)
Jazz	261	(19)
The New Orleans Style: The Traditional Jazz of the Early Recordings	261	(4)
``Dippermouth Blues'' (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band)	262	(3)
``Hotter Than That'' (Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five)	265	(1)
Dissemination and Change: Before the Swing Era	265	(1)
The Swing Era and the Big Bands	266	(4)
``Ko-ko'' (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)	268	(2)
The Emergence of Modern Jazz: Bop as a Turning Point	270	(6)
``KoKo'' (Charlie Parker)	272	(2)
``Out of This World'' (John Coltrane)	274	(2)
The Pluralism of the Last Quarter-Century	276	(2)
``Bitches Brew'' (Miles Davis)	276	(2)
Projects	278	(1)
Additional Listening	278	(2)
Part VI Classical Music	280	(41)
The Search for an American Identity	282	(18)
Music Education Before the Civil War	284	(1)
Music Education and Culture After the Mid-Nineteenth Century	285	(6)
``Pawnee Horses,'' Arthur Farwell (Dario Muller)	290	(1)
American Music and American Life	291	(3)
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin (Oscar Levant)	291	(2)
Afro-American Symphony, William Grant Still (Fort Smith Symphony)	293	(1)
Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland (New York Philharmonic)	294	(1)
America's Virtuoso Cult	294	(4)
``The Banjo,'' Louis Gottschalk (Eugene List)	295	(1)
``The Battle of Manassas,'' Thomas Wiggins (John Davis)	296	(2)
Projects	298	(1)
Additional Listening	298	(2)
Twentieth-Century Innovation and the Contemporary World	300	(13)
Charles Ives: American Innovator in Music	300	(2)
Four New England Holidays, Charles Ives (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)	302	(1)
New York and Europe-Related ``Modernism''	302	(2)
Hyperprism, Edgard Varese (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)	303	(1)
Midcentury Modernism	304	(2)
The West Coast: Cowell, Harrison, and Partch	306	(2)
``The Banshee'' (Henry Cowell)	306	(2)
New Technology and the New Music	308	(1)
Minimalism	309	(1)
Piano Phase (Steve Reich)	310	(1)
Multimedia Art and Concept Music	310	(1)
Classical Music and the Contemporary World	311	(1)
The Bushy Wushy Rag, Philip Bimstein (Equinox Chamber Players)	312	(1)
Projects	312	(1)
Additional Listening	312	(1)
Film Music	313	(8)
A Realistic Film of the American West	313	(1)
Two Films About the Small Town and the Big City	314	(1)
Three Career Film Composers	315	(4)
``The Murder'' Psycho, Bernard Herrmann (Los Angeles Philharmonic)	317	(2)
``The Imperial March'' Star Wars, John Williams (London Symphony Orchestra)	319	(1)
Epilogue	319	(1)
Projects	319	(1)
Additional Listening	319	(2)
Part VII Music in Your Own Backyard	321	(10)
Tales of Two Cities: Austin, Texas, and Sacramento, California	322	(9)
Classical Music in Austin, Texas: Aspects from the 1930s to World War I	322	(4)
The Sacramento Valley: A Rich Mix of Cultures	326	(4)
Projects	330	(1)
References	331	(8)
Glossary	339	(4)
Photo Credits	343	(2)
Index	345