America's Musical Life: A History

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Overview

"A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." —Kirkus Reviews

When it comes to American music, America's Musical Life is "the best one-volume history yet on the subject for musicians and enthusiasts, professional or amateur" (Kirkus Reviews). "Well-researched and sensitively constructed" (Library Journal) and "a book that welcomes the reader, who is happy to keep returning for more" (Music Library Association Notes), America's Musical Life tells the story of American music making in rich detail. In chronicling American music's bountiful heritage, this "superb book presents the whole sweep of U.S. cultivated and traditional music—from 16th-century Native American music through late 20th-century hiphop culture." A substantial cultural achievement, "this definitive history of music in the U.S. is sure to delight music aficionados and history buffs alike, and is a must for anyone interested in what music has meant to America and what America has meant to music" (Publishers Weekly).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393327267
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/2005
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	992
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Crawford, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Musicological Society, has published ten books on American music. He lives in Michigan.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	The First Three Centuries
1	The First Song: Native American Music	3
2	European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making	15
3	From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music	29
4	"Old, Simple Ditties": Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making	56
5	Performing "By Particular Desire": Colonial Military, Concert, and Theater Music	83
6	Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America	102
7	Correcting "the Harshness of Our Singing": New England Psalmody Reformed	125
Part 2	The Nineteenth Century
8	Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason	139
9	Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music	156
10	"Be It Ever So Humble": Theater and Opera, 1800-1860	173
11	Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage	196
12	Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry	221
13	From Ramparts to Romance: Parlor Songs, 1800-1865	240
14	Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s	272
15	From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music	293
16	From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry	314
17	A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana	331
18	Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach	351
19	Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism	372
20	"Travel in the Winds": Native American Music from 1820	387
21	"Make a Noise!": Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s	407
22	Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century	429
23	Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph	453
24	"After the Ball": The Rise of Tin Pan Alley	471
Part 3	The Twentieth Century
25	"To Stretch Our Ears": The Music of Charles Ives	495
26	"Come On and Hear": The Early Twentieth Century	524
27	The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz, and a Rhapsody	557
28	"The Birthright of All of Us": Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression	580
29	"All That Is Native and Fine": American Folk Song and Its Collectors	597
30	From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National	619
31	"Crescendo in Blue": Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band	641
32	The Golden Age of the American Musical	664
33	Classical Music in the Postwar Years	689
34	"Rock Around the Clock": The Rise of Rock and Roll	714
35	Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends	736
36	Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence	755
37	Melting Pot or Pluralism?: Popular Music and Ethnicity	778
38	From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music	799
39	Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s	813
40	Black Music and American Identity	837
	Epilogue	853
	Notes	861
	Bibliography	897
	Credits	925
	Index	931