Bibliograph

Music in the New World, Charles Hamm

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Music in the New World, Charles Hamm

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Discography: pages 695-706Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-692) and index

Illustrations

musicillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Music in the New World

Nature of contents

bibliographydiscographies

Oclc number

8409981

Responsibility statement

Charles Hamm

Summary

The present book is both a history of music in America and a history of American music

Table Of Contents

Music of the Native American -- Psalms, hymns & spiritual songs in colonies -- Anglo-American music in oral tradition -- Concert & operatic music in Colonial & Federal America -- African slave & his music in America -- William Billings & Lowell mason : Birth & reform -- Origins & beginnings of American popular song -- Dawning of classical music in America (1825-65) -- Stephen Foster & indigenous American song -- Shape-note, camp meeting & gospel hymnody -- Marching & dancing through nineteenth-century America -- rise of classical compositiion in America : years after the Civil war -- Music of Tin Pan Alley -- Soulful singing & syncopated dance music or the roots of jazz -- Search for a national identity -- Diamonds in the rough : Hillbilly & Country Western music -- Golden age of jazz -- Second wave & its impact on American composition -- American avant-garde -- Age of rock

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