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Music in American Life, Present & Future » Read Now
by Augustus Delafield Zanzig. 560 pgs.

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...MUSIC IN AMERICAN LIFE MUSIC IN AMERICAN LIFE PRESENT FUTURE Prepared for the NATIONAL RECREATION...also capable of providing important help in the promotion of music in...
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Essays on American Music » Read Now
by Garry E. Clarke. 264 pgs.

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...Essays on American Music Recent Titles in Contributions in...Community Edward Magdol Essays on American Music GARRY E. CLARKE Contributions...Data Clarke, Garry E Essays on...
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Biographical Dictionary of American Music » Read Now
by Charles Eugene Claghorn. 491 pgs.

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...and Friends Biographical Dictionary of American Music Biographical Dictionary of American Music Charles Eugene Claghorn PARKER PUBLISHING...Charles Eugene Biographical...
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An Hour with American Music » Read Now
by Paul Rosenfield. 180 pgs.

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...AN HOUR WITH AMERICAN MUSIC THE ONE HOUR SERIES THE...PICTURES GILBERT SELDES AMERICAN MUSIC PAUL ROSENFELD IN PREPARATION...ONE HOUR SERIES AN HOUR WITH AMERICAN MUSIC by...
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Yankee Blues: Musical Culture and American Identity » Read Now
by MacDonald Smith Moore. 216 pgs.

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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture » Read Now
by Robert G. O'Meally. 570 pgs.

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Varied Carols: A Survey of American Choral Literature » Read Now
by David P. Devenney. 318 pgs.

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This survey of choral literature, written by American composers from 1760 through the 1990s, examines nearly 3,000 pieces of choral music written by over 300 composers. Along with a descriptive analysis, the literature is placed within a historical perspective. Familiar and less well-known composers...
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This survey of choral literature, written by American composers from 1760 through the 1990s, examines nearly 3,000 pieces of choral music written by over 300 composers. Along with a descriptive analysis, the literature is placed within a historical perspective. Familiar and less well-known composers and their music are examined. The study seeks to remedy the superficial treatment choral music is often given in standard textbooks on American music and to acknowledge and expose the varied richness of the literature.
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The History of American Church Music » Read Now
by Leonard Ellinwood. 276 pgs.

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...HOWARD HANSON Crusader for American Music Preface PREPARATION of this...College and authority on early American music. Two facts have been noticed...in John Tasker Howard's...
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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 » Read Now
by William Howland Kenney. 260 pgs.

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Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow...
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Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed in the dual process of documentation and dissemination? How would our lives be different without these machines? Such are the questions that arise when we stop taking for granted the phenomenon of recorded music and the phonograph itself. Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--from the formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion. By examining the interplay between recorded music and the key social, political, and economic forces in America during the phonograph's rise and fall as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, he addresses such vital issues as the place of multiculturalism in the phonograph's history, the roles of women as record-player listeners and performers, the belated commercial legitimacy of rhythm-and-blues recordings, the "hit record" phenomenon in the wake of the Great Depression, the origins of the rock-and-roll revolution, and the shifting place of popular recorded music in America's personal and cultural memories. Throughout the book, Kenney argues that the phonograph and the recording industry served neither to impose a preference for high culture nor a degraded popular taste, but rather expressed a diverse set of sensibilities in which various sorts of people found a new kind of pleasure. To this end, Recorded Music in American Life effectively illustrates how recorded music provided the focus for active recorded sound cultures, in which listeners shared what they heard, and expressed crucial dimensions of their private lives, by way of their involvement with records and record-players. Students and scholars of American music, culture, commerce, and history--as well as fans and collectors interested in this phase of our rich artistic past--will find a great deal of thorough research and fresh scholarship to enjoy in these pages.
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Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass » Read Now
by Stephanie P. Ledgin. 182 pgs.

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With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this...
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With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and "parking lot picking," Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print,audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.
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