America's musical landscape
By: Jean Ferris.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780073401409
Subjects: Music -- United States -- History and criticism; Music appreciation
Notes: Includes index.

LC copy lacks companion 3-CD set.
Table of contents: title: Basic properties of musical sound; title: Music in early North America; title: North American Indian music; title: Early folk music; title: Religious music in the colonial, revolutionary, and federal periods; title: Secular music in the colonial, revolutionary, and federal periods; title: The tumultuous nineteenth century; title: Religious music in the early nineteenth century; title: Popular music of the Civil War era; title: Concert music; title: The growth of vernacular traditions; title: The rise of popular culture; title: The jazz age; title: Jazz 1930-1960; title: Country music; title: Latin popular musics; title: Vernacular musics since rock and roll; title: Rock and roll; title: Rock flirts with country; title: Jazz since 1960; title: Popular music since 1970; title: Music for theater and film; title: Musical theater; title: Music for films; title: American opera; title: Tradition and innovation in concert music; title: Experimental music: revolution; title: Early twentieth-century mainstream concert music: evolution; title: The avant-garde, continued; title: The recent mainstream.