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Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
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Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to
2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a
Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody
Guthrie on the spunkfire attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around Napster. Sidebar entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play
a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant
to courses in American history and American Studies.
Author: Judith Tick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/26/2008
Pages: 920
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.45lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780195139884
2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a
Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody
Guthrie on the spunkfire attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around Napster. Sidebar entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play
a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant
to courses in American history and American Studies.
Author: Judith Tick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/26/2008
Pages: 920
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.45lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780195139884
About the Author
Judith Tick is a high-profile music historian who writes about American music, particularly early modernism, and women's history. Among her publications are books and articles about Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, and in particular, the prize-winning biography of the American composer, Ruth Crawford
Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (OUP 1997). She is an Associate Editor for the journal Musical Quarterly. A faculty member at Northeastern University since 1986, she was named a Matthews Distinguished University Professor in 1999 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2004.
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