An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 9 | ANGLO-CELTIC BALLADS AND THEIR COLLECTORS 219 date: unknown performer: Jean Ritchie, unaccompanied vocal genre: Chil ...

220 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Listen & Refl ect Describe the qualities of Jean Ritchie’s voice, which ...

CHAPTER 9 | AMERICAN FOLK SONGS AND THEIR COLLECTORS 221 of song lyrics without music). The song relied from the start on oral t ...

222 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I cowboy into a mythic fi gure, and the song offers a peek into his dreams. To ...

CHAPTER 9 | AMERICAN FOLK SONGS AND THEIR COLLECTORS 223 enrich the experience of English-speaking Americans, for they conjured ...

224 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I campaign to shorten working hours, the following lyrics were published for t ...

CHAPTER 9 | SPIRITUALS AND THEIR COLLECTORS: FROM CONTRABAND TO CONCERT HALL 225 left a deep impression. “They have a prime deli ...

226 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Allen, Ware, and Garrison compiled Slave Songs to document a disappearing or ...

CHAPTER 9 | SPIRITUALS AND THEIR COLLECTORS: FROM CONTRABAND TO CONCERT HALL 227 Home might be eternal, as in “Deep River” and “ ...

228 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I An important handful of black musicians in the post-slavery period benefi te ...

CHAPTER 9 | SPIRITUALS AND THEIR COLLECTORS: FROM CONTRABAND TO CONCERT HALL 229 date: 1913 performers: The Howard University Ch ...

230 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I abolition of slavery. Rooted in a past era of persecution, the words continu ...

231 CHAPTER 10 I n 1866 a French ballet company found itself stranded in New York City: the theater in which the dancers had bee ...

232 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I MUSICAL THEATER AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY It is possible to arrange the ear ...

CHAPTER 10 | MUSICAL THEATER AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 233 creative efforts of American composers. In 1911 the company presente ...

234 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I If opera belongs to the classical sphere and musical comedy and revue to the ...

CHAPTER 10 | MUSICAL THEATER AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 235 would like to think of as familiar. Second, in place of the sweeping ...

236 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Sinbad introduced three big hit songs, all of them sung by Jolson. All three ...

CHAPTER 10 | THE RISE OF RAGTIME 237 land owned by absentee landlords, trapped many former slaves in a life of poverty scarcely ...

238 PART 2 | FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I Euro-American and African American traditions was Will Marion Cook. Born in ...