The Cambridge History of American Music Hardback: The Cambridge History of Music - Hardcover

Nicholls

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521454298 ISBN 13: 9780521454292

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This 1998 book was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. It surveys music of Native Americans, musical life until 1900, film and stage music, jazz, rock, and regional musics. The volume includes twentieth-century art music, and the experimental and tonal traditions.

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Críticas

'Unlike European musical history, the terra incognita of American music for non-specialists is the pre-modern era. The first half of The Cambridge History of American Music covers all aspects of this period and is worth the price of the whole.' The Times Literary Supplement

'Enjoyable and non-technical, this fine volume has much to offer to all those interested in the highways and byways of the American musical landscape.' BBC Music Magazine

'... copes with its subject's pluralism by employing many authorities, collated under a general editor, David Nicholls, whose approach is as far-sighted as it is intelligent.' Tempo

'The generally high quality of the essays as well as the admirable and unexpected liveliness of the book as a whole shows the virtue of Nicholls's approach.' Journal of the American Musicological Society

Biografía del autor

David Nicholls is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of American Experimental Music, 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and contributing editor of The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium (1997), and The Cambridge Companion to John Cage (2002). He is also editor of the journal American Music.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521454298
• ISBN 13: 9780521454292
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 654