Crawford, R: America's Musical Life: A History

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Part 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

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When it comes to American music, America's Musical Life is "the best one-volume history yet on the subject for musicians and enthusiasts, professional or amateur" (Kirkus Reviews). "Well-researched and sensitively constructed" (Library Journal) and "a book that welcomes the reader, who is happy to keep returning for more" (Music Library Association Notes), America's Musical Life tells the story of American music making in rich detail. In chronicling American music's bountiful heritage, this "superb book presents the whole sweep of U.S. cultivated and traditional music—from 16th-century Native American music through late 20th-century hiphop culture." A substantial cultural achievement, "this definitive history of music in the U.S. is sure to delight music aficionados and history buffs alike, and is a must for anyone interested in what music has meant to America and what America has meant to music" (Publishers Weekly).

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