An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 6 | SONGS OF SOCIAL REFORM AND WAR 159 What made “Dixie” a Southern favorite? Why would white people fi ghting to preser ...

160 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR raising their voices in ecstatic, comradely shouts, soldiers sing in four-p ...

161 Gac, Scott. Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Cul- ture of Antebellum Reform. Ne ...

TIMELINE: 1861–1918 1861 Reverend Lewis C. Lockwood publishes “Go Down Moses” in an abolitionist newspaper 1865 Founding of the ...

AMERICA’S MUSIC PART T WO FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I A fter the Civil War, the United States entered a phase of geo- ...

164 F ollowing the Civil War, the United States underwent a transformation from a primarily agricultural to a primarily industri ...

CHAPTER 7 | BAND MUSIC AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 165 postwar years by such bandleaders as Patrick S. Gilmore and John Philip Sousa, br ...

166 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I hundred, a band of one thousand, a chorus of ten thousand, and many famous s ...

CHAPTER 7 | BAND MUSIC AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 167 Boasting shiny instruments and dressed in military-style uni- forms, Sousa’s men ...

168 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I A brief, four-bar introduction is followed by two repeated strains (AABB), o ...

CHAPTER 7 | BAND MUSIC AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 169 date: 1897 performers: The U.S. Marine Band genre: march meter: duple form: long ...

170 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I steps and thirds—in circular, undulating melodic shapes that avoid the tonic ...

CHAPTER 7 | BAND MUSIC AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 171 What were Sousa’s qualms about recordings? For one thing, recording tech- nique a ...

172 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I going night and day.” In Sousa’s view, the change was bad for the art of mus ...

CHAPTER 7 | INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE RISE OF GOSPEL MUSIC 173 The chorus repeats the second half, ba, and the framing piano int ...

174 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I revival in Scotland, they made Moody and Sankey famous, and soon they were m ...

CHAPTER 7 | THE RISE OF TIN PAN ALLEY 175 date: 1867 performers: Harmoneion Singers; Neely Bruce, director genre: gospel hymn me ...

176 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I As the century’s end approached, the company had grown into a colossus that ...

CHAPTER 7 | THE RISE OF TIN PAN ALLEY 177 1896 to form the Syndicate, a group that controlled most major theaters in New York an ...

178 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I over performers who played their circuits that comedian Harpo Marx once said ...