Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction * Boston's French Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Ellen Knight * Tickler's Secrets: Ragtime Performance Practices, 1900-1920-A Bibliographic Essay, Karen Rege * Mapping the Blues Genes: Technological, Economic, and Social Strands-A Spectral Analysis, Raymond D. Dessy * Some American Firms and Their Contributions to the Development of the Reproducing Piano, Kent Holliday * Dances, Frolics, and Orchestra Wars: The Territory Bands and Ballrooms of Kansas City, Missouri, 1925-1935, Marc Rice * Thomas A. Dorsey and the Development and Diffusion of Traditional Black Gospel Piano, Timothy M. Kalil * Western Swing: Working-class Southwestern Jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, Jean A. Boyd * The Art of Noise: John Cage, Lou Harrison, and the West Coast Percussion Ensemble, Leta Miller * Melville Smith: Organist, Educator, Early Music Pioneer, and American Composer, Mark DeVoto * Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: High, Middle, and Low Culture, 1937-1954, Donald C. Meyer * Cinema Music of Distinction: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Gail Kubik, Alfred W. Cochran * The New Tin Pan Alley: 1940s Hollywood Looks at American Popular Songwriters, John C. Tibbetts

About the author

Michael Saffle

Summary

The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the US from 1900 to 1950. Contributions consider the triumph of popular forms such as jazz and blues, as well as the art music of composers like Ives and Cage.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Saffle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780815321453
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2145-3
• No. of pages: 430
• Weight: 960 g
• Series: Essays in American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; USA, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Theory of music & musicology, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology