America's music : from the Pilgrims to the present / Gilbert Chase.
| Author/creator | Chase, Gilbert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : McGraw-Hill, [1955] |
| Description | xxiii, 733 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one. Preparation. Puritan psalm singers -- New England reformers -- Singing dissenters -- African exiles -- Gentlemen amateurs -- Professional emigrants -- Native pioneers -- Part two. Expansion. Progress and profit -- The genteel tradition -- The fasola folk -- Revivals and camp meetings -- The Negro spirituals -- The Ethiopian business -- America's minstrel -- The exotic periphery -- Europe versus America -- A romantic bard -- The Boston classicists -- Part three. Fulfillment. Nationalism and folklore -- Indian tribal music -- The rise of ragtime -- Singin' the blues -- The growth of jazz -- The Americanists -- The eclectics -- The traditionalists -- The experimentalists -- Twelve-tone composers -- In the orbit of Broadway -- Toward an American opera -- Composer from Connecticut. |
| Abstract | this account of music in America, presents "the music made or continuously used by the people of the United States, people who have come from many parts of the earth to build a new civilization and to create a new society in a new world." Chase perceives music as a cultural statement and writes to celebrate American musical pluralism. He seeks to enter into the motives and beliefs of each of his subjects, and believes that America's music is a counterpoint of ideas, trends, voices, and sounds, issuing from many different layers of society. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-706) and index. |
| LCCN | 54009707 |
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