An ear-opening exploration of music's New World, from Puritan psalmody to Hamilton
With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured ...
A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music
Beginning with the music of Native Americans and continuing with traditions introduced by European colonizers and Africans brought here as slaves, the book reveals how this bountiful heritage was developed and enhanced in the nineteenth and ...
The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music.
African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istics and development of each genre. This book...
Music Cultures in the United States is a basic textbook for an Introduction to American Music course. Taking a new, fresh approach to the study of American music, it is divided into three parts.
AN INTERACTIVE, SWING-ALONG PICTURE BOOK—WITH 12 SOUND CHIPS!
503 , 506 , 511 , 514 , 518–19 , 521 , 523 Jaffe , Moe , and Nat Bonx , Collegiate . Words and Music by Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx . Copyright © 1925 Shapiro , Bernstein & Co. , Inc. , New York . Copyright Renewed .
The first edition of American Popular Music introduces the history and influence of American music within the broader context of American culture. It reveals how the...
Following the same chapter organization as An Introduction to America s Music, To Stretch Our Ears is the first gathering of significant and far-reaching readings that illuminate many aspects of American music."