America's musical landscape
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America's musical landscape
McGraw-Hill, c2002
4th ed
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Includes discographies and index
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Description
"America's Musical Landscape" is an entertaining survey of the growth and development of the arts in America that follows the chronological thread of American music as its guide. The author treats artists and their works as integrated events - as tiles in the mosaic of American culture. For readers unfamiliar with the technical elements of music, the text also offers an elegant and readable introduction to the fundamentals of music and is available with a three-CD set of recorded examples.
Table of Contents
PRELUDE:The Elements of Musical Sound Part One: MUSIC IN EARLY NORTH AMERICA 1 North American Indian Music 2 Folk Music 3 The Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods Part Two: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 4 Populist Music of the Nineteenth Century 5 Early Concert Music 6 American Concert Music Comes of Age Part Three: THE GROWTH OF VERNACULAR TRADITIONS 7 The Rise of Popular Culture 8 Country Western and Urban Folk Music 9 The Jazz Age 10 Jazz 1930-1960 11 Jazz Since 1960 12 Latin Popular Musics 13 Rock and Roll 14 Popular Music since 1970 Part Four: MUSIC FOR THEATER AND FILM 15 Musical Theater 16 Music for Films 17 American Opera Part Five: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN CONCERT MUSIC 18 Experimental Music: Revolution 19 Mainstream Concert Music: Evolution 20 The Avant-Garde after 1950 21 American Concert Music Since 1950
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