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American music : a panorama / Daniel Kingman.

Author/creator Kingman, Daniel
Format Book and Print
EditionConcise ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1998.
Descriptionxiv, 433 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 27 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Part one. Folk and ethnic musics. The Anglo-American tradition. "Barbara Allen" as a prototype of the Anglo-American ballad ; Print and the ballad ; Imported versus native ballads ; The music of the ballads ; Fiddle tunes ; Folk music as an instrument of persuasion in the twentieth century -- The African-American tradition. African music and its relation to black music in America ; Religious folk music: the spiritual ; Secular Folk music -- The American Indian tradition. Music in aboriginal Indian life ; Characteristics of Indian music ; Indian music and acculturation -- The Latino tradition. Sacred music from Mexico ; Secular music from Mexico ; Music from the Caribbean and South America -- Part two. Three prodigious offspring of the rural south. Country music. Enduring characteristics of the music ; Enduring characteristics of the words ; Commercial beginnings: early recordings, radio, and the first stars ; The west: the cowboy image ; The west: realism and eclecticism ; Postwar dissemination and full-scale commercialization ; The persistence and revival of traditional styles -- Blues and soul: from country to city. Early published blues ; Classic city blues ; Blues and jazz ; Boogie-woogie ; The absorption of country blues into popular music ; The soul synthesis ; Blues in the 1990s -- Rock and its progeny. Characterisitics of the music ; Characteristics of the words ; A brief history of rock's times and styles -- Part three. Popular sacred music. From psalm tune to rural revivalism. Psalmody in America ; The singing-school tradition ; The frontier and rural America in the nineteenth century ; Music among our smaller independent sects -- Urban revivalism and gospel music. Urban revivalism after the Civil War: the Moody-Sankey era of gospel hymns ; The Billy Sunday - Homer Rodeheaver era: further popularization ; Gospel music after the advent of radio and recordings -- Part four. Popular secular music. Secular music in the cities from colonial times to the Jacksonian era. Concerts and dances ; Bands and military music ; Musical theater ; Popular song -- Popular musical theatre from the Jacksonian era to the present. Minstrelsy and musical entertainment before the Civil War ; From the Civil War through the turn of the century ; The first half of the twentieth century ; The musical since the advent of rock -- Popular song, dance, and march music from the Jacksonian era to the advent of rock. Popular song from the 1830s through the Civil War ; Popular song from the Civil War through the ragtime era ; The band in America after the Jacksonian era ; Popular song from ragtime to rock ; Tin Pan Alley and its relation to jazz and black vernacular music -- Part five. Jazz and its forerunners. Ragtime and Pre-Jazz. The context of ragtime from its origins to its zenith ; The musical characteristics of ragtime ; The decline and dispersion of ragtime ; The ragtime revival ; Pre-jazz -- Jazz. The New Orleans style: the traditional jazz of the early recordings ; Dissemination and change: the pre-swing era ; The swing era and the big bands ; The emergence of modren [modern] jazz: bop as a turning point ; The pluralism of the last quarter century -- Part six. Classical music. Laying the foundation: accomplishments from the Jacksonian era to World War I. 1830-1865: education and reform in a time of expansion ; Outspoken "Nativists" of the mid-nineteenth century ; Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the virtuoso in nineteenth-century America ; After the Civil War: the pursuit of culture in a time of industrialization ; The second New England school ; Five individualists around the turn of the century -- The evolving tradition, 1930-1970. Some background for the "Fervent years" ; Music with film ; Music with dance ; Music with poetry ; Music independent of film, dance, or poetry -- Modernism I: new ways with old tools. Charles Ives (1874-1954) ; Henry Cowell (1897-1965) ; Lou Harrison and John Cage ; Harry Partch (1901-74) ; Edgard Varese (1883-1965) -- Modernism II: the impact of technology and new esthetic concepts. The surface features of mid-century modernism ; The two dominant rationales of mid-century modernism ; New technology and the new music ; Other aspects of mid-century modernism -- Modernism transcended: autonomy, assimilation, and accessibility. Minimalism: a radical antidote to modernism ; Modernism gives way to assimilation and reconnection ; Music association and the new accessibility -- Opera old and new. Opera in America before the 1930s: an unassimilated alien ; Traditional American opera beginning in the 1930s ; New opera in the last quarter of the century -- Part seven. Regionalism and diversity. Three regional samplings. Louisiana and the French influence ; The upper midwest and the Scandinavian influence ; The Sacramento valley: a rich mix of cultures.
Abstract This is an inviting and succinct guide to our nation's musical culture. Kingman's view of American music as a number of distinct parallel streams is reflected in this text and includes the following: folk and ethnic music; popular sacred music; the southern music of country, blues, and rock; popular secular music; jazz; and classical music. Contrasting these across regions and times, he delivers a clear vision of the historical roles of music and composers in American culture.
Local noteLittle-311737--305131015487
Local noteLittle-311737--305131015487
Bibliography noteInludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97029048
ISBN0028646142 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML200 .K55 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold