American Musical Traditions: European American music
Title | American Musical Traditions: European American music PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Todd Titon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Ethnomusicology |
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A study of American vernacular musical traditions, featuring essays on communities and examples of their music, as well as interviews or profiles of specific musicians and musical groups. Volume four covers various European immigrant groups and their music as it has been performed in the U.S.
American Musical Traditions
Title | American Musical Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Ethnomusicology |
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Gateway to Music
Title | Gateway to Music PDF eBook |
Author | Jocelyn Nelson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2011-05-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781609272388 |
New World Symphonies
Title | New World Symphonies PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Sullivan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780300072310 |
This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorák in New York. Sullivan brings popular and canonical culture into his wide-ranging discussion. He explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, examining in particular Dvorák's fascination with Longfellow, the obsession of Debussy and Ravel with Poe, and the inspiration Whitman provided for Holst, Vaughan Williams, and dozens more. Sullivan uncovers the African American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartók, Walton, and others. He analyzes the lure of Hollywood and Broadway for such composers as Weill, Korngold, and Britten and considers the power of the American landscape--from the remoteness of the prairie to the brutal energy of the American city. In European music, Sullivan finds, American culture and mythology continue to resonate.
A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music
Title | A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Crawford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Music |
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European and American Musical Instruments
Title | European and American Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Baines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Musical instruments |
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America's Musical Life
Title | America's Musical Life PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Crawford |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 1000 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393048100 |
An illustrated history of America's musical heritage ranges from the earliest examples of Native American traditional song to the innovative sound of contemporary rock and jazz.