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Book Synopsis"A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." —
Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsPart One: The First Three Centuries; 1. The First Song: Native American Music; 2. European Inroads: Early Christian Music Making; 3. From Ritual to Art: The Flowering of Sacred Music; 4. 'Old, Simple Ditties': Colonial Song, Dance, and Home Music Making; 5. Performing 'By Particular Desire': Colonial Military, Concert, and Theatre Music; 6. Maintaining Oral Traditions: African Music in Early America; 7. Correcting 'the Harshness of Our Singing': New England Psalmody Reformed; Part Two: The Nineteenth Century; 8. Edification and Economics: The Career of Lowell Mason; 9. Singing Praises: Southern and Frontier Devotional Music; 10. 'Be It Ever So Humble': Theatre and Opera, 1800-1860; 11. Blacks, Whites, and the Minstrel Stage; 12. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry; 13. From Ramparts to Romance: Parlour Songs, 1800-1845; 14. Of Yankee Doodle and Ophicleides: Bands and Orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s; 15. From Church to Concert Hall: The Rise of Classical Music; 16. From Log House to Opera House: Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry; 17. A New Orleans Original: Gottschalk of Louisiana; 18. Two Classic Bostonians: George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach; 19. Edward MacDowell and Musical Nationalism; 20. 'Travel in the Winds': Native American Music from 1820; 21. 'Make a Noise!': Slave Songs and Other Black Music to the 1880s; 22. Songs of the Later Nineteenth Century; 23. Stars, Stripes, and Cylinders: Sousa, the Band, and the Phonograph; 24. 'After the Ball': The Rise of Tin Pan Alley; Part Three: The Twentieth Century; 25. 'To Stretch Our Ears': The Music of Charles Ives; 26. 'Come On and Hear': The Early Twentieth Century; 27. The Jazz Age Dawns: Blues, Jazz and a Rhapsody; 28. 'The Birthright of All of Us': Classical Music, the Mass Media, and the Depression; 29. 'All That is Native and Fine': American Folk Song and Its Collectors; 30. From New Orleans to Chicago: Jazz Goes National; 31. 'Crescendo in Blue': Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band; 32. The Golden Age of the American Musical; 33. Classical Music in the Postwar Years; 34. 'Rock Around the Clock': The Rise of Rock and Roll; 35. Songs of Loneliness and Praise: Postwar Vernacular Trends; 36. Jazz, Broadway, and Musical Permanence; 37. Melting Pot or Pluralism? Popular Music and Ethnicity; 38. From Accessibility to Transcendence: The Beatles, Rock, and Popular Music; 39. Trouble Girls, Minimalists, and The Gap: The 1960s to the 1980s; 40. Black Music and American Identity
