Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States: Extending the Legacy of Kate Van Winkle Keller
- Editor: Lohman, Laura
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Contents
- Introduction
- David K. Hildebrand and Laura Lohman
- Part I Interpreting Material Objects of Music and Dance Culture
- Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
- Raoul F. Camus
- Aaron Thompson, His Book of Notes: First American Transcription of Five Country Dances From the Revolutionary War era
- Richard C. Spicer
- A Scrapbooking President and a Few Good Tunes: Researching Early American Musical Practices through the Jefferson-Randolph Family Scrapbooks
- Laura Lohman
- Part II Situating Dance and Its Music in Early American Society
- Keller's Approach: New Perspectives in Dance History
- Heather Blasdale Clarke
- Successful Campaigns: The Commercialization of Leisure and Self-Presentation in Early America
- Graham Christian
- Mozart, America's First Waltz-King
- Michael Broyles
- Part III Research and Contemporary Performance
- A Practical Guide for Recreating Early American Music: Thoughts after 40 Years in the Trenches
- David K. Hildebrand
- Soundscapes of Tradition: Ancient Fifing and Drumming and the Embodiment of Place in the Connecticut River Valley
- Timothy Murray
- Imagining Colonial America and the Early Republic in Musical Theater: Historical Tensions and Creative Possibilities in Dearest Enemy (1925) and Hamilton (2015)
- William A. Everett
- Conclusion
- Laura Lohman, David K. Hildebrand, and Heather Blasdale Clarke
- Postlude
- Robert M. Keller, Anne Keller Geraci, and Margaret Keller Dimock