The Cambridge history of American music / edited by David Nicholls.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st paperback ed.
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description
xv, 637 p. : music ; 23 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
The Cambridge history of music
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-609) and index.
Contents
  • pt. 1.
  • American Indian musics, past and present / Victoria Lindsay Levine
  • Music in America: an overview (part 1) / William Brooks
  • Secular music to 1800 / Kate Van Winkle Keller and John Koegel
  • Sacred music to 1800 / Nym Cooke
  • African American music to 1900 / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje
  • Immigrant, folk, and regional musics in the nineteenth century / Michael Broyles
  • Nineteenth-century popular music / Dale Cockrell
  • Art music from 1800 to 1860 / Katherine K. Preston
  • Art music from 1860 to 1920 / Michael Broyles
  • pt. 2.
  • Music in America: an overview (part 2) / William Brooks
  • Immigrant, folk, and regional musics in the twentieth century / Philip V. Bohlman
  • Popular song and popular music on stage and film / Stephen Banfield
  • The rock and roll era / Robert Walser
  • Ragtime and early jazz / Jeffrey Magee
  • Jazz from 1930 to 1960 / David Joyner
  • Jazz since 1960 / Ronald Radano
  • Tonal traditions in art music from 1920 to 1960 / Larry Starr
  • Serialism and complexity / Stephen Peles
  • Avant-garde and experimental music / David Nicholls
  • Tonal traditions in art music since 1960 / Jonathan W. Bernard.
ISBN
0521545544 (pbk.)
OCLC
59272611
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