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Informationen zum Autor David Nicholls is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of American Experimental Music! 1890-1940 (Cambridge University Press! 1990) and contributing editor of The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium (1997)! and The Cambridge Companion to John Cage (2002). He is also editor of the journal American Music. Klappentext A definitive history of music in the United States! written by a team of scholars. Zusammenfassung This 1998 book was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. It surveys music of Native Americans! musical life until 1900! film and stage music! jazz! rock! and regional musics. The volume includes twentieth-century art music! and the experimental and tonal traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; Editor's preface; Part I: 1. American Indian musics, past and present Victoria Lindsay Levine; 2. Music in America: an overview (part 1) William Brooks; 3. Secular music to 1800 Kate Van Winkle Keller with John Koegel; 4. Sacred music to 1800 Nym Cooke; 5. African-American music to 1900 Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje; 6. Immigrant, folk and regional musics in the nineteenth century Michael Broyles; 7. Nineteenth-century popular music Dale Cockrell; 8. Art music from 1800 to 1860 Katherine K. Preston; 9. Art music from 1860 to 1920 Michael Broyles; Part II: 10. Music in America: an overview (part 2) William Brooks; 11. Immigrant, folk and regional musics in the twentieth century Philip V. Bohlman; 12. Popular song and popular music on stage and film Stephen Banfield; 13. The rock and roll era Robert Walser; 14. Ragtime and early jazz Jeffrey Magee; 15. Jazz from 1930 to 1960 David Joyner; 16. Jazz since 1960 Ronald Radano; 17. Tonal traditions in art music from 1920 to 1960 Larry Starr; 18. Serialism and complexity Stephen Peles; 19. Avant-garde and experimental music David Nicholls; 20. Tonal traditions in art music since 1960 Jonathan W. Bernard; Bibliography and references; Index....
