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America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story behind Our Nations's Favorite Song
by Lynn Sherr. 125 pgs.

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In this beautiful, patriotic gift book, colorfully illustrated throughout, ABC News correspondent Lynn Sherr explores the fascinating history of our unofficial national anthem. Full color and b&w photos and illustrations throughout.

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America the Beautiful

Contents

Introduction

The Poem

The Music

The Song

The Meaning

The Anthem

The Legacy

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Selected Bibliography

Index

A Note about the Author
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Music, Power and Politics (Chap. 1 "A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of 'Battle Hymn of the Repbulic'")
by Annie J. Randall. 286 pgs.

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Presents 16 different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of socio-political struggle. This text includes essays by scholars from around the world that explore the means by which music has been used to advance agendas of power & protest.

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Acknowledgment

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of “battle Hymn of the Republic”

Chapter 2: Discipline and Choralism: the Birth of Musical Colonialism

Chapter 3: Power Needs Names: Hegemony, Folklorization, and the Viejitos Dance of Michoacán, Mexico

Chapter 4: The Power to Influence Minds: German Folk Music During the Nazi Era and After

Chapter 5: The Making of a National Musical Icon: Xian Xinghai and His Yellow River Cantata

Chapter 6: Dancing for the Eternal President

Chapter 7: The Power of Recently Revitalized Serbian Rural Folk Music in Urban Settings

Chapter 8: Hands off My Instrument!

Chapter 9: Barbadian Tuk Music - a Fusion of Musical Cultures

Chapter 10: There Goes the Transnational Neighborhood: Calypso Buys a Bungalow

Chapter 11: Fighting for the Right (To) Party? Discursive Negotiations of Power in Preunification East German Popular Music

Chapter 12: Who's Listening?

Chapter 13: Subversion and Countersubversion: Power, Control, and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music

Contributors

Index
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American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years (Chap. 7 "'The Singin'est War' 1861-1865")
by Russell Sanjek. 484 pgs.

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This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the "fall and rise" of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business.

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Part One 1790 to 1860

Chapter 1 Music Publishing in the New Republic 1790-1800

Chapter 2 the Business of Popular Music 1800-1860

Chapter 3 Sheet Music Publishing in Pre-Civil War America

Chapter 4 American Musical Theater 1800-1860

Chapter 5 the Music of God's Americans 1800-1860

Chapter 6 the Music of Black Americans 1800-1860

Part Two

Chapter 7 "The Singin'Est War" 1861-1865

Chapter 8 the Music of God's Americans 1865-1909

Chapter 9 Black Music in America 1860-1909

Chapter 10 the American Musical Theater 1865-1909

Chapter 11 Popular Music in the Age of Gigantism 1866-1909

Bibliography

Index
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Confederate Music
by Richard B. Harwell. 186 pgs.

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To Margaret Mitchell Marsh

Preface

Contents

Illustrations

Part One

Chapter One Singing Soldiery

Chapter Two Copyright C. L. A.

Chapter Three Bard of the Stars and Bars

Chapter Four God Save the South: Dixie and Its Rivals

Chapter Five Farewell to the Star Spangled Banner

Chapter Six Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel

Chapter Seven I Cannot, Cannot Say Farewell

Part Two

Sheet Music Published in the Confederate States

Appendixes

Bibliography

Index
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Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era
by Bruce C. Kelley, Mark A. Snell. 260 pgs.

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"Old Times There Are Not Forgotten"| an Overview of Music of the Civil War Era Bruce C Kelley

Music and Community in the Civil War Era| Deane L Root

They Weren't All like Lorena| Musical Portraits of Women in the Civil War Era Lenora Cuccia

"An Inspiration to All"| New Hampshire's Third Regiment and Hilton Head Post Bands in Civil War South Carolina Richard C Spicer

Confederates at the Keyboard| Southern Piano Music during the Civil War David B Thompson

Henry Clay Work "The Silver Horn"| as Civil War Elegy Walter L Powell

The Production and Consumption of Confederate Songsters| Kirsten M Schultz

Across a Great Divide| Irish American Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era Michael Saffle

Civil War Music and the Common Soldier| the Experiences of Charles Wellington Reed Eric a Campbell

Music Inspired by the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863-1913| Mark a Snell

Contributors

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America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society (Chap. 3 "Proud to Be an American: Patriotism in Country Music")
by Kenneth J. Bindas. 302 pgs.

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Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or generation. Always a major preoccupation of students, music is often ignored by teaching professionals, who might profitably channel this interest to further understandings of American history and society. In this interdisciplinary collection, topics concerning twentieth-century popular music are related to issues of politics, class, economics, race, gender, and the social context. The focus throughout is to encourage investigation of the complex issues behind the music.

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Preface

Introduction: The Importance of Music to People

Part I: Politics

1: Popular Music as Politics and Protest

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2: Blues What I Am: Blues Consciousness and Social Protest

3: Proud to Be an American: Patriotism in Country Music

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4: Still Boy-Meets-Girl Stuff: Popular Music and War

Part II: Class

5: Social and Geographic Characteristics of Country Music

6: The Music of the Dispossessed: the Rise of the Blues

7: Emerging from America's Underside: the Black Musician from Ragtime to Jazz

Endnotes

8: Race, Class, and Ethnicity among Swing Musicians

9: Rock and Roll and the Working Class

10: Rock Is Youth/Youth Is Rock

Part III: Economics

11: Music as Commodity: Effect and Influence

12: The Development of Tin Pan Alley

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13: Small Business and the Recording Industry

14: The Business of Popular Music: a Short History

Endnotes

Bibliography

15: Taking Care of Business: the Commercialization of Rock Music

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Part IV: Race

16: The African-American Contribution to Jazz

Endnotes Page

Bibliography

17: The Day Hank Williams Died: Cultural Collisions in Country Music

Bibliography

Endnotes Page

18: Swing and Segregation

19: The Role and Image of African Americans in Rock and Roll

Part V: Gender

20: Equal Time: a Historical Overview of Women in Jazz

Endnotes Page

21: Women and Country Music

22: One Voice: the Legacy of Women Singers in Popular Music

23: Lyrical Sexism in Popular Music: a Quantitative Examination

Part VI: Social Context

24: The Ragtime Controversy

25: Debating with Beethoven: Understanding the Fear of Early Jazz

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26: Sounds of Seduction: Sex and Alcohol in Country Music Lyrics

Endnotes Page

27: The Homogenization of Early Rock and Roll

Conclusion: The Impact of Popular Music in Society

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Early American Sheet Music: Its Lure and Its Lore, 1768-1889
by Harry Dichter, Elliott Shapiro. 292 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Overture to Words and Music

Introduction

First Editions

Part I Classified Listing of Early American Sheet Music

Presidents of the United States (1789-1941)

Music of the American Revolution (hostilities 1775-1783)

Early Music (1788-1810)

Early Patriotic and Historical Items (not Connected with Any War)

Yankee Doodle (in Chronological Order)

Hail Columbia (president's March)

Adams and Liberty ("Anacreon" Tune)

Undeclared War with France (hostilities 1798-1800)

George Washington

War with Tripoli (hostilities 1801-1805)

Early Indian Items

Early Negro Songs

War of 1812 (hostilities 1812-1815)

Star Spangled Banner (foreword)

Prior Uses of the "Anacreon" Tune

Star Spangled Banner Editions (the Imprints Are Given Exactly as Printed, in Each Case)

Songsters Containing Star Spangled Banner

Home Sweet Home

Lafayette

Military Items

My Country 'tis of Thee (america)

Early Comic Songs

Illustrated Negro Minstrel Songs (of the "Jim Crow" Type)

Non-Illustrated Negro Minstrel Songs

Ship Items

New York City Items

Political Items

Tobacco Items

Temperance Items

Abolition Items

Skating Items

Railroad Items

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

Indian Items

Dance Items

Fire Items

Mexican War (hostilities 1846-1847)

Jenny Lind Items

Early California Imprints

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Music Stores (the Name of the Publisher Precedes Each Title)

Stephen C. Foster First Editions

Stephen C. Foster Confederate Editions (description Condensed)

Express Company Items

College Views (the Name of the College Precedes Each Title)

College Songs

Later Comic Items

Telegraph and Cable Item

Dixie

Abraham Lincoln

Maryland My Maryland

Civil War Items (hostilities 1861-1865)

Confederate Items

Money Items

Stamp Items

Oil Items

Croquet Items

Trapeze and Aerial Items

Velocipede Items

Telephone Item

Harrigan and Hart Items

Electricity Item

Typewriter Item

Portraits on Music

Famous Songs (description Condensed)

Songs of Literary Interest (description Condensed)

Part II Directory of Early American Music Publishers

Part III Lithographers and Artists Working on American Sheet Music Before 1870

Bibliography

Part IV Illustrations

Index
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The National Music of America and Its Sources (1900) (Chap. IX "Songs of the Civil War")
by Louis C. Elson. 322 pgs.

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Music Lovers' Series

Preface.

Contents

List of Illustrations and Music.

The National Music of America and Its Sources.

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Index.
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Institutions, Technology, and Economics: "A Higher Mission Than Merely to Please the Ear" Music and Social Reform in America, 1900-1925, in Musical Quarterly
by Gavin James Campbell. 28 pgs.

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