Title: Music in the New World /
Authors: Hamm, Charles.; Irwin K. Carson Collection.
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Music United States History and criticism
Abstract: The present book is both a history of music in America and a history of American music.
Contents: Music of the Native American -- Psalms, hymns & spiritual songs in colonies -- Anglo-American music in oral tradition -- Concert & operatic music in Colonial & Federal America -- African slave & his music in America -- William Billings & Lowell mason : Birth & reform -- Origins & beginnings of American popular song -- Dawning of classical music in America (1825-65) -- Stephen Foster & indigenous American song -- Shape-note, camp meeting & gospel hymnody -- Marching & dancing through nineteenth-century America -- rise of classical compositiion in America : years after the Civil war -- Music of Tin Pan Alley -- Soulful singing & syncopated dance music or the roots of jazz -- Search for a national identity -- Diamonds in the rough : Hillbilly & Country Western music -- Golden age of jazz -- Second wave & its impact on American composition -- American avant-garde -- Age of rock.