An Introduction To Americas Music

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393668285
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to America's Music written by Richard Crawford and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ear-opening exploration of music's New World, from Puritan psalmody to Hamilton

Author : Mellonee V. Burnim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317934423
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Music written by Mellonee V. Burnim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393974096
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to America's Music written by Richard Crawford and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of music in the United States, from the sacred music of its earliest days to the jazz and rock that enliven the turn of the millennium. Beginning with the music of Native Americans and continuing with traditions introduced by European colonizers and Africans brought as slaves, the book reveals how this heritage was developed and enhanced in the 19th and 20th centuries to produce the music we hear today. The three-CD set contains historically appropriate recordings of 70 works discussed in the book and is accompanied by listening guides.

Author : Richard Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music written by Richard Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Koskoff
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415965880
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Cultures in the United States written by Ellen Koskoff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music in the United States' is a basic textbook for any introduction to American music course. Each American music culture is covered with an introductory article and case studies of the featured culture.

Author : Earl L. Stewart
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Music written by Earl L. Stewart and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Music provides an introduction to all of the richness and diversity of African American musical styles, focusing on the distinct characte4istics and development of each genre. This book is divided into four parts: folk traditions; the jazz aesthetic; black popular styles since 1940; and black theatrical and classical music. Using brief musical examples, the author illustrates and explains the basic concepts that unite all African American styles before discussing each style individually. Among the many types of music explored in individual chapters are spirituals, blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, pop and classical. Biographical portraits of major musicians and composers, as well as detailed stylistic analyses of each musical genre, make this book not only required reading for any introduction to the field, but a pleasure to read for anyone interested in all of the different styles that comprise African American music. Includes information on Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, bebop, Chuck Berry, blues, boogie woogie, James Brown, call and response, classical music, classic jazz, Sam Cooke, cool jazz, William Levi Dawson, doo wop, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, free jazz, gospel music, Isaac Hayes, jazz, James Weldon Johnson, Motown Records, Charlie Parker, rags and ragtime, rap music, rhythm and blues, soul music, spirituals, swing, etc. [Publisher description]

Author : David Kastin
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Hear America Singing written by David Kastin and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of American Popular Music introduces the history and influence of American music within the broader context of American culture. It reveals how the history of American music connects to contemporary popular music through specific examples showing how past styles and performers have influenced current musical styles. Presents a balanced, accurate, and comprehensive portrayal of American popular music within a narrative, conversational style while discussing various musical styles and performers in a larger social and historical context that provides a larger perspective on American cultural history. The book relates the development of each musical genre to its historical period and places individual performers and styles within their larger social or artistic context. It includes numerous excerpts from literary works that reveal the tremendous influence popular music has had on American culture. It also presents over 300 photos and illustrations, including album covers, posters, sheet music illustrations, and song lyrics. An important reference for any reader interested in the history of American popular music.

Author : Nadine Hubbs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937953
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queer Composition of America's Sound written by Nadine Hubbs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.

Author : Neil C. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134796927
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cultural Studies written by Neil C. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on literature, art, film theatre, music and much more, American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American Studies. This textbook: * introduces the full range and variety of American culture including issues of race, gender and youth * provides a truly interdisciplinary methodology * suggests and discusses a variety of approaches to study * highlights American distinctiveness * draws on literature, art, film, theatre, architecture, music and more * challenges orthodox paradigms of American Studies. This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.

Author : Julie C. Dunbar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351857452
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Music, Culture written by Julie C. Dunbar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Second Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in courses in both music and women's studies. A compelling narrative, accompanied by over 50 guided listening examples, brings the world of women in music to life, examining a community of female musicians, including composers, producers, consumers, performers, technicians, mothers, and educators in art music and popular music. The book features a wide array of pedagogical aids, including a running glossary and a comprehensive companion website with streamed audio tracks, that help to reinforce key figures and terms. This new edition includes a major revision of the Women in World Music chapter, a new chapter in Western Classical "Work" in the Enlightenment, and a revised chapter on 19th Century Romanticism: Parlor Songs to Opera. 20th Century Art Music.