Scarecrow Press
Pages: 416
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Trim: 7½ x 9
978-0-8108-4674-6 • Paperback • June 2003 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-4617-1680-8 • eBook • June 2003 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Edith Borroff (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a prominent musicologist and composer. She has taught at several universities and was professor of music at the State University of New York (Binghamton) for almost twenty years. Among her other books are The Music of the Baroque (1978), Music in Europe and the United States: A History (1990), and American Opera: A Checklist (1992).
Preface
1. Early Music in America (to 1783)
2. An Energetic New Nation (1783 to 1840)
3. A Nation Struggling for Maturity (1840 to 1880)
4. A Nation Coming of Age (1880 to 1923)
5. Other Venues (1880 to 1923)
6. The Business and Dissemination of Music
7. Boom, Depression, and War (1923 to 1961)
8. Other Venues (1923 to 1961)
9. The Electronic Age
10. Reaching into the Future (1961 to 1993)
11. Other Venues (1961 to 1993)
12. A Musical Nation
Appendix: Basic Musical Concepts
Glossary
Index
Index of Titles
An enjoyable overview text of the history of American music…for music history students and nonspecialist general readers alike…a superb choice as a classroom curriculum text, as well as a seminal addition to music department and community library Music History & Appreciation reference collections.
— Library Bookwatch