The Cambridge History of American Music Hardcover

David Nicholls
Cambridge University Press
9780521454292
0-521-45429-8

The Cambridge History of American Music is the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. The volume begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores.

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the historical and cultural events of musical life in the period until 1900. Other contributors examine the growth of popular musics, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional musics. The volume also includes chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.