Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950

ISBN-13: 9780815321453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 430 str.

Michael Saffle; James R. Heintze

Opis

The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the US from 1900 to 1950. Contributions consider the triumph of popular forms such as jazz and blues, as well as the art music of composers such as Charles Ives and John Cage.

Spis treści

Introduction * Boston's French Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Ellen Knight * Tickler's Secrets: Ragtime Performance Practices, 1900-1920-A Bibliographic Essay, Karen Rege * Mapping the Blues Genes: Technological, Economic, and Social Strands-A Spectral Analysis, Raymond D. Dessy * Some American Firms and Their Contributions to the Development of the Reproducing Piano, Kent Holliday * Dances, Frolics, and Orchestra Wars: The Territory Bands and Ballrooms of Kansas City, Missouri, 1925-1935, Marc Rice * Thomas A. Dorsey and the Development and Diffusion of Traditional Black Gospel Piano, Timothy M. Kalil * Western Swing: Working-class Southwestern Jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, Jean A. Boyd * The Art of Noise: John Cage, Lou Harrison, and the West Coast Percussion Ensemble, Leta Miller * Melville Smith: Organist, Educator, Early Music Pioneer, and American Composer, Mark DeVoto * Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: High, Middle, and Low Culture, 1937-1954, Donald C. Meyer * Cinema Music of Distinction: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Gail Kubik, Alfred W. Cochran * The New Tin Pan Alley: 1940s Hollywood Looks at American Popular Songwriters, John C. Tibbetts

O autorze

Michael Saffle