Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Folk and ethnic musics -- The Anglo-Celtic-American tradition -- The African American tradition -- The American Indian tradition -- Latino traditions -- Diverse traditions : French, Scandinavian, Arab, and Asian -- Folk music as an instrument of advocacy -- Part II. Three offspring of the rural south -- Country music -- The blues -- Rock music -- Part III. Popular sacred music -- From psalm tune to rural revivalism -- Urban revivalism and gospel music -- Part IV. Popular secular music -- Secular music in the cities from colonial times to the age of Andrew Jackson -- Popular musical theater and opera from the Jacksonian era to the present -- Popular song, dance, and march music from the Jacksonian era to the advent of rock -- Part V. Jazz and its forerunners -- Ragtime and precursors of jazz -- Jazz -- Part VI. Classical music -- The search for an American identity -- Twentieth-century innovation and the contemporary world -- Film music -- Part VII. Music in your own backyard -- Tales of two cities : Austin, Texas, and Sacramento, California.
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