Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
- Author: Tick, Judith
The entire course of American music emerges from this judiciously selected and introduced collection of 159 examples —
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Figures and Graphics
- 1540-1770
- 1 Early Encounters between Indigenous Peoples and European Explorers, 1540-1642 (Castaneda, Drake, de Meras, Smith, Wood)
- 2 From the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book (1640)
- 3 Four Translations of Psalm 100 (Tehilim, Bay Psalm Book, 1640 and 1698, Watts)
- 4 From the Diaries of Samuel Sewall
- 5 The Ministers Rally for Musical Literacy, 1720-21 (Mather, Walter, Symmes)
- 6 Benjamin Franklin Advises His Brother on How to Write a Ballad and How Not to Write like Handel (ca. 1764)
- 7 Advertisements and Notices from Colonial Newspapers, 1716-1774
- 8 Social Music for the Elite in Colonial Williamsburg in the 1750s/1770-1830
- 9 Christopher Crotchet, Singing Master from Quavertown
- 10 Singing the Revolution (Adams, Dickinson, Greeley)
- 11 Elisha Bostwick Hears a Scots Prisoner Sing Gypsie Laddie in 1777
- 12 A Sidebar into Ballad Scholarship ca.1880-1970: The Wanderings of The Gypsy Laddie (Child, Sharp, Coffin, Bronson)
- 13 William Billings and the New Psalmody, 1770-1794 (Billings, Gould)
- 14 Daniel Read on Pirating and Scientific Music, ca. 1790-1830
- 15 Padre Narciso Duran Describes Musical Training at the Mission San Jose, 1813-1815
- 16 Moravian Musical Life at Bethlehem in the 1800s (Henry, Till, Bowne)
- 17 Reverend Burkitt Brings Camp Meeting Hymns from Kentucky to North Carolina in 1803
- 18 John Fanning Watson and The Errors in Methodist Worship (1819)
- 19 Reverend James B. Finley and Mononcue Sing Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing in 1823
- 20 Turn-of-the Century Theater Songs from Reinagle, Rowson, and Carr: America, Commerce, and Freedom and The Little Sailor Boy/1830-1870
- 21 Thomas D. Rice Acts Out Jim Crow and Cuff, in the 1830s
- 22 William M. Whitlock, Banjo Player for the Virginia Minstrels in the 1850s
- 23 Edwin P. Christy, Stephen Foster, and Ethiopian Minstrelsy
- 24 Stephen Foster's Legacy, ca. 1845-1960 (Foster, Gordon, Robb, Simpson, Willis, Galli-Curci, Kuller and Webster, Charles)
- 25 The Fasola Folk, The Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp, ca. 1830-1860 (Walker, White, and King )
- 26 A Sidebar into the Discovery of Shape-Note Music by a National Audience (Jackson, the 1991 Edition)
- 27 The Boston Public Schools Set a National Precedent in Music Education in 1837
- 28 Music Education for American Girls in the 1850s
- 29 Lorenzo Da Ponte Recruits an Italian Opera Company for New York (1831)
- 30 Early Expressions of Cultural Nationalism in the 1850s (Hopkins, Fry, Putnam's Monthly)/31. John S. Dwight Remembers How He and His Circle Were But Babes in Music
- 32 George Templeton Strong Hears the American Premiere of Beethoven's Fifth in 1841
- 33 German Americans Adapting and Contributing to Musical Life in the Mid 1800s
- 34 Emil Klauprecht's German-American novel, Cincinnati, oder die Geheimnisse des Westens, 1854
- 35 P. T. Barnum and the Jenny Lind Fever in 1850
- 36 Miska Hauser, Hungarian Violinist, Pans For Musical Gold in 1853
- 37 From the Journals of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- 38 The 'Four-Part Blend' of the Hutchinson Family
- 39 Walt Whitman's Conversion to Opera in the 1850s
- 40 Clara Kellogg and the Memoirs of an American Prima Donna in the 1860s and '70s
- 41 Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
- 42 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Two Scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
- 43 From Slave Songs of the United States, 1867
- 44 A Sidebar into Memory: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- 45 George F. Root Recalls How He Wrote a Classic Union Song
- 46 A Confederate Girl's Diary during the Civil War
- 47 Soldier-Musicians from the North and the South Recall Duties on the Front
- 48 Patrick S. Gilmore and the Golden Age of Bands (Newspaper review, Herbert)
- 49 Ella Sheppard Moore, a Fisk Jubilee Singer in the 1870s
- 50 Theodore Thomas and His Musical Manifest Destiny (Rose Fay Thomas, Theodore Thomas)/1880-1920
- 51 John Philip Sousa -Excerpts from his Autobiography
- 52 Why is a Good March like a Marble Statue? (Pryor, Fennell)
- 53 Willa Cather Mourns the Passing of the Small-Town Opera House
- 54 Henry Lee Higginson and the Founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881
- 55 American Classical Music Goes to the Paris World's Fair, 1889
- 56 George Chadwick's Ideals for Composing Classical Concert Music in the 1890s
- 57 Late 19th-Century Cultural Nationalism: The Paradigm of Dvorak (Creelman, Paine, Burleigh)
- 58 Henry Krehbiel Explains a Critic's Craft and a Listener's Duty in 1896
- 59 Amy Fay Tackles the Woman Question in 1900
- 60 Amy Beach, Composer, on Why I Chose My Profession (1914)
- 61 Edward MacDowell, Poet-Musician, Remembered (Currier, Gilman)
- 62 Paul Rosenfeld's Manifesto for American Composers, 1916
- 63 From the Writings of Charles Ives/64, Frederic Louis Ritter Looks for the People's Song (1884)
- 65 Emma Bell Miles on Some Real American Music (1905)
- 66 Frances Densmore and the Documentation of American Indian Songs and Poetry
- 67 A Sidebar into National Cultural Policy: The Federal Cylinder Project (1979)
- 68 Charles K. Harris on Writing for Tin Pan Alley
- 69 Scott Joplin, Ragtime Visionary (Scott Joplin, Lottie Joplin)
- 70 A Sidebar into the Ragtime Revival of the 1970s: William Bolcom reviews The Collected Works of Scott Joplin
- 71 James Reese Europe Credits Men of His Blood with Introducing Modern Dances in the 1910s
- 72 Irving Berlin on Love-Interest As a Commodity in Popular Songs (1915)
- 73 Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton Describes New Orleans and Its Jazz Scene, 1920-1950
- 74 Bessie Smith, Artist and Blues Singer (Press notice, Bailey, Schuller)
- 75 Thomas Andrew Dorsey Brings the People Up and Carries Himself Along
- 76 Louis Armstrong in His Own Words
- 77 Gilbert Seldes Waves the Flag of Pop
- 78 Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
- 79 Carl Stalling: Master of Cartoon Music: An Interview
- 80 A Sidebar into Postmodernism: John Zorn Turns Carl Stalling into a Prophet
- 81 Alec Wilder Writes Lovingly about Jerome Kern
- 82 George Gershwin Surveys Fifty Years of American Music
- 83 William Grant Still, Pioneering African American Composer (Still, Locke, Still)
- 84 The Inimitable Henry Cowell as described by the Irrepressible Nicolas Slonimsky
- 85 Ruth Crawford on Dissonant Music
- 86 River Sirens, Lion Roars, All Music to Varese
- 87 Leopold Stokowski and Debatable Music
- 88 Henry Leland Clark on the Composer's Collective
- 89 Marc Blitzstein In and Out of the Treetops of The Cradle Will Rock
- 90 Samuel Barber and the Controversy around the Premiere of Adagio for Strings (Downes, Pettis, Menotti, Harris)
- 92 Arthur Berger Divides Aaron Copland into Two Styles
- 93 Aaron Copland on the The Personality of Stravinsky
- 94 Roger Sessions Describes the American Period of Arnold Schoenberg (Sessions, Schoenberg, Sessions)
- 95 Uncle Dave Macon, Banjo Trickster at the Grand Ole Opry
- 96 The Bristol Sessions and Country Music
- 97 A Sidebar into the Folk Revival: Harry Smith's Canon of Old-Time Recordings
- 98 Zora Neale Hurston on Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals
- 99 Emma Dusenbury, Source Singer, Describes her Hard Times (1941)
- 100 John and Alan Lomax Propose a Canon for American Folk Song (1947)
- 101 Woody Guthrie Praises the Spunkfire Attitude of a Folk Song (1948)
- 102 Fred Astaire Dances like a Twentieth-Century American (Williams)
- 103 The Innovations of Oklahoma! (de Mille, Engel)
- 104 Duke Ellington on Swing as a Way of Life
- 105 Malcolm X Recalls the Years of Swing
- 106 The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (Holiday, Wilson, Bennett)
- 107 Ralph Ellison and the Birth of Bebop at Minton's, 1950-1975
- 108 Ella Fitzgerald On Stage (Peterson)
- 109 Leonard Bernstein Finds His Way to the American Musical
- 110 Stephen Sondheim on Writing Theater Lyrics
- 111 Muddy Waters Explains Why It Doesn't Pay to Run from Trouble
- 112 Elvis Presley in the Eye of Musical Twister (newspaper reviews, Gould, Lewis)
- 113 Chuck Berry in His Own Words
- 114 Greil Marcus and the New Rock Criticism in the 1970s
- 115 The Five String Banjo: Hints from the 1960s Speed-Master, Earl Scruggs
- 116 Pete Seeger, a TCUSAPSS, Sings Out!
- 117 Bob Dylan Turns Liner Notes into Poetry
- 118 Janis Joplin Grabs Pieces of Our Hearts (Joplin, Graham)
- 119 Handcrafting the Grooves in the Studio: Aretha Franklin at Muscle Shoals (Wexler)
- 120 Jimi Hendrix, Virtuoso of Electricity (Hendrix, Bloomfield)
- 121 Amiri Baraka Theorizes a Black Nationalist Aesthetic
- 122 Charles Reich on The Music of Consciousness III
- 123 McCoy Tyner on The Jubilant Experience of John Coltrane's Classic Quartet
- 124 Miles Davis - Excerpts from his Autobiography
- 125 A Vietnam Vet Remembers Rocking and Rolling in the Mud of War (Rodriguez, Beaudoin and Rodriguez)
- 126 George Crumb and Black Angels--A Quartet in Time of War
- 127 Milton Babbitt on Electronic Music (Brody and Miller, Babbitt)
- 128 Edward T. Cone Satirizes Music Theory's New Vocabulary in the 1960s
- 129 Mario Davidovsky, An Introduction (Chasalow)
- 130 Elliot Carter on the 'Different Time Worlds' in String Quartets No. 1 and 2
- 131 John Cage, Words and Music For Changes (Cage, Anderson)
- 132 Harold Schonberg on Art and Bunk, Matter and Anti Matter
- 133 Pauline Oliveros, Composer and Teacher
- 134 Steve Reich on Music as a Gradual Process, 1975-2000
- 135 Star Wars meets Wagner (Williams, Tomlinson)
- 136 Tom Johnson--What is Minimalism Really About?
- 137 Morton Feldman and His West German Fan Base (Feldman, Post)
- 138 Philip Glass and the Roots of Reform Opera
- 139 Laurie Anderson, Performance Artist (Anderson, Gordon)
- 140 Meredith Monk and the Revelation of Voice
- 141 Recapturing the Soul of the American Orchestra (Duffy, Tower)
- 142 Two Economists Measure the Impact of Blind Auditions between 1960 and 2000
- 143 John Harbison on Modes of Composing
- 144 Wynton Marsalis on Learning from the Past for the Sake of the Present
- 145 John Adams, an American Master
- 146 The Incorporation of the American Folklife Center
- 147 Daniel Boorstin's Welcoming Remarks at the Conference on Ethnic Recordings in America (1977)
- 148 Willie Colon on Conscious Salsa
- 149 The Accordion Travels Through Roots Music (Savoy)
- 150 Santiago Jimenez, a Patriarch of Conjunto
- 151 Gloria Anzaldua on Vistas y corridos: My Native Tongue
- 152 Contemporary Native American Music and the Pine Ridge Reservation (Porcupine Singers, Frazier)
- 153 MTV and the Music Video (MoMA Exhibition of 1985, Hoberman)
- 154 Turning Points in the Career of Michael Jackson (Jackson, Jones)
- 155 Sally Banes Explains Why Breaking is Hard to Do
- 156 Two Members of Public Enemy Discuss Sampling and Copyright Law
- 157 DJ Q-bert, Master of Turntable Music (Chin)
- 158 A Press Release from the Country Music Association (1997)
- 159 Ephemeral Music: Napster's Congressional Testimony (2000)