Music in America : experiencing music, expressing culture / Adelaida Reyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyes, Adelaida.

Series:

Global music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Music.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Music--United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 123 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Contents:

God bless America / Irving Berlin

Yankee Doodle

New women's shuffle dance = Askaanyea guynawsay : Seneca

Oye como va / Tito Puente

Pretty Polly

One morning in May

Diamond Joe

Soldier's joy

Oh, Susanna / Stephen Foster

Go dating with my love : for Chinese bamboo flute

Bittersweet music / Bun-ching Lam

Batey / Tania Leon ; in collaboration with Michel Camilo

Hello song : Yup'ik (Eskimo) / Nicholas R. Charles, Sr.

Aloha e ke kai o Kalalau

U. S. highball ; The letter / Harry Partch

Banshee / Henry Cowell

The gong on the hook and ladder / Charles Ives

Goodnight, Irene / Huddie Ledbetter

This land is your land ; I ain't got no home / Woody Guthrie

Gray goose

Cuban overture / George Gershwin

Clave pattern

We shall overcome / C. A. Tindley

Swanee River / Stephen Foster

Stars and Stripes / John Philip Sousa

Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin

A Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland

Barbara Allen

Caverns / Jason Kao Hwang

Stomp dance / Carlos Nakai ; AmoChip Dabney

Excerpt from "Mart" / Ali N. Askin. "Mart(-nique)" / remix by Kai Fikentscher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-117) and indexes.

Track list for compact disc with credits and sources on p. xv-xviii; though not there indicated, some tracks are excerpts only.

ISBN:

0195146662

0195146670

OCLC:

55078625