| Description |
xv, 637 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge history of music
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-609) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- Avante-garde and experimental music / David Nicholls -- Tonal traditions in art music since 1960 / Jonathan W. Bernard. |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Nicholls, David, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0521454298 (hardback) |
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