The American musical landscape : the business of muscianship from Billings to Gershwin / 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:

xix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

Summary:

In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. Surveying the history of several musical professions in the United States -- composing, performing, teaching, and distributing music -- Crawford highlights the importance of economics to music. He also discusses interconnections between classical and popular music, using New England psalmody, nineteenth-century songs, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin to illustrate his points.

Contents:

Cosmopolitan and provincial : American musical historiography

Professions and patronage I : teaching and composing

Professions and patronage II : performing

William Billings (1746-1800) and American psalmody : a study of musical dissemination

George Frederick Root (1820-1895) and American vocal music

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and his orchestra

George Gershwin's "I got rhythm" (1930).

Notes:

Updated edition with a new preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index.

ISBN:

0520224825

OCLC:

44421950