Music and Musicians in Early America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Musicians in Early America write by Irving Lowens. This book was released on 1964. Music and Musicians in Early America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aspects of the history of music in early America and the history of early American music.
Music and Musicians in Early America
Music and Musicians in Early America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Musicians in Early America write by Irving Lowens. This book was released on 1964. Music and Musicians in Early America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cultivated by Hand
Cultivated by Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultivated by Hand write by Glenda Goodman. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Cultivated by Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States. These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make themselves--and their new nation-appear culturally sophisticated. Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities. Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose labors should be taken into account.
A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music
A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music write by Richard Crawford. This book was released on 1979. A Historian's Introduction to Early American Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stomp and Swerve
Stomp and Swerve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stomp and Swerve write by David Wondrich. This book was released on 2003-08. Stomp and Swerve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The early decades of American popular music--Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso--are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music--black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude--made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music--how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers--and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean forms; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors.
