An Introduction to America's Music

Part 1 first three centuries: The First Song - Native American music European inroads - early Christian music making from ritual to art - the flowering of sacred music Old, Simple Ditties - Colonial song, dance, and home music making performing By Particular Desire - Colonial military, concert, and theatre music maintaining oral traditions - African music in early America correcting The Harshness of Our Singing - New England psalmody reformed. Part 2 nineteenth century: edification and economics - the career of Lowell Mason singing praises - Southern and Frontier devotional music Be It Ever So Humble - theatre and opera, 1800-1860 blacks, whites, and the minstrel stage - home music making and the publishing industry from Jeanie to Dixie - parlour songs, 1800-1865 of yankee doodle and ophicleides - bands and orchestras, 1800 to the 1870s from church to concert hall - the rise of classical music from log house to opera house - Anthony Philip Heinrich and William Henry Fry a New Orleans original - Gottschalk of Louisiana two classic Bostonians - George W. Chadwick and Amy Beach Edward MacDowell and musical nationalism Travel in the Winds - Indian music from 1820 Make a Noise! - slave songs and other Black music to the 1880s songs of the later 19th century stars, stripes, and cylinders - Sousa and the phonograph After the Ball - the rise of Tin Pan Alley Part 3 twentieth century: To Stretch Our Ears - the music of Charles Ives come on and hear - the early 20th century blues, jazz, and a rhapsody - the Jazz Age dawns The Birthright of of Us - popular music, mass media, and the depression All that Is Native and Fine - American folk song and its collectors from New Orleans to Chicago - jazz goes national Crescendo in Blue Ellington, Basie, and the Swing Band the golden age of the American musical classical music in the postwar years Rock around the Clock - the rise of rock and roll songs of loneliness and praise - postwar popular trends jazz, Broadway, and musical permanence melting pot or pluralism? - popular music and ethnicity the Beatles, rock, and popular music trouble girls, minimalists, and the gap - the 1960s to the 1980s Black music and American identity.