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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Description
xv, 609 pages : digital, PDF file.

Availability

Available Online

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Editor
Series
Cambridge histories online
Summary note
This volume examines the diversity of America's musical life, with its influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and other sources. It explores the social, historical, and cultural events of musical life and the influence of popular musics.
Notes
Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 23, 2018).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
System details
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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.
Other format(s)
Also issued in print format.
Other title(s)
History of American music
ISBN
  • 9780511469077 ((ebook))
  • 0511469071 ((ebook))
OCLC
457146227
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