America's musical life : a history / Richard Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Richard, 1935-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 976 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [2001]

Summary:

In this fascinating story of music in the United States, Crawford leads readers along widely varied paths, from the sacred music of the earliest days to the jazz and rock that enliven the turn of the millennium. 50 photos. 15 music examples.

Contents:

Part 1 The First Three Centuries

1. The First Song: Native American Music 3

2. European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making 15

3. From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music 29

4. "Old, Simple Ditties": Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making 56

5. Performing "By Particular Desire": Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music 83

6. Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America 102

7. Correcting "the Harshness of Our Singing": New England Psalmody Reformed 125

Part 2 The Nineteenth Century

8. Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason 139

9. Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music 156

10. "Be It Ever So Humble": Theater and Opera, 1800-1860 173

11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage 196

12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry 221

13. From Ramparts to Romance: Parlor Songs, 1800-1865 240

14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s 272

15. From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music 293

16. From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry 314

17. A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana 331

18. Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach 351

19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism 372

20. "Travel in the Winds": Native American Music from 1820 387

21. "Make a Noise!": Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s 407

22. Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century 429

23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph 453

24. "After the Ball": The Rise of Tin Pan Alley 471

Part 3 The Twentieth Century

25. "To Stretch Our Ears": The Music of Charles Ives 495

26. "Come On and Hear": The Early Twentieth Century 524

27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody 557

28. "The Birthright of All of Us": Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression 580

29. "All That Is Native and Fine": American Folk Song and Its Collectors 597

30. From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National 619

31. "Crescendo in Blue": Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band 641

32. The Golden Age of the American Musical 664

33. Classical Music in the Postwar Years 689

34. "Rock Around the Clock": The Rise of Rock and Roll 714

35. Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends 736

36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence 755

37. Melting Pot or Pluralism?: Popular Music and Ethnicity 778

38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music 799

39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s 813

40. Black Music and American Identity 837.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 897-923) and index.

ISBN:

0393048101

OCLC:

42397958