Record details

• ISBN: 0521454298
• ISBN: 9780521454292
• ISBN: 0521545544
• ISBN: 9780521545549
• Physical Description: xv, 637 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-609) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

American Indian musics, past and present / Victoria Lindsay Levine -- Music in America: an overview (part 1) /William Brooks -- Secular music to 1800 / Kate van Winkle Keller, John Koegel -- Sacred music to 1800 / Nym Cooke -- African American music to 1900 / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Immigrant, folk, and regional musics in the nineteenth century / Michael Broyles -- Nineteenth-century popular music / Dale Cockrell -- Art music from 1800 to 1860 / Katherine K. Preston -- Art music from 1860 to 1920 / Michael Broyles -- Music in America: an overview (part 2) / William Brooks --Immigrant, folk, and regional musics in the twentieth century / Philip V. Bohlman -- Popular song and popular music on stage and film / Stephen Banfield -- The rock and roll era / Robert Walser -- Ragtime and early jazz / Jeffrey Magee -- Jazz from 1930 to 1960 / David Joyner -- Jazz since 1960 / Ronald Radano -- Tonal traditions in art music from 1920 to 1960 / Larry Starr -- Serialism and complexity / Stephen Peles -- Avant-garde and experimental music / David Nicholls -- Tonal traditions in art music since 1960 / Jonathan W. Bernard.

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Subject:

Music > United States > History and criticism.
Musique > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.

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• The Cambridge history of music
• Cambridge history of music.