An Introduction to America’s Music

CHAPTER 4 | REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ANTEBELLUM BLACK MUSIC MAKING 99 in New Orleans. One Sunday afternoon in February 1819, he w ...

100 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR stupid.” To his ear, the men’s singing was “uncouth,” the women’s nothing m ...

CHAPTER 4 | THE MUSIC OF BLACK WORSHIP 101 The three Hebrew children from the fi ery furnace, And why not deliver me too? Spirit ...

102 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR date: unknown performers: The McIntosh County Shouters; Lawrence McKiver, s ...

CHAPTER 4 | THE MUSIC OF BLACK WORSHIP 103 polyrhythmic texture and suggest how American slaves, denied the percussion instrumen ...

104 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR What galled Watson most was not the behavior of blacks at camp meetings but ...

CHAPTER 4 | FURTHER LISTENING 105 Rosenbaum, Art, and Johann S. Buis. Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout ...

106 M usic making, whether private or public, sacred or secular, served mul- tiple functions in antebellum America. Just as Lowe ...

CHAPTER 5 | HOME MUSIC MAKING AND THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY 107 order in which refi nement and gentility could have a place. But h ...

108 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR go straight into print and a piano sonata by the same composer stay in manu ...

CHAPTER 5 | HOME MUSIC MAKING AND THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY 109 if any customers, at least in Reinagle’s day. From an economic sta ...

110 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR it to listeners? The answers to these questions refl ected the existence of ...

CHAPTER 5 | ITALIAN OPERA IN THE UNITED STATES 111 García rented the theater for two nights a week, sharing the stage with an En ...

112 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR OPERA STARS AND COMPANIES In March 1826, on the night before her eighteenth ...

113 SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORYSPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY Promoting a Star: P. T. Barnum and Jenny Lind S tar making requires not only a char ...

114 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR 1822–23 season, opera in the Théâtre d’Orléans was played by a resident com ...

CHAPTER 5 | BANDS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 115 who performed Italian opera in its original tongue, on the other. An orchestra of tw ...

116 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR By the middle 1800s bands in the United States were serving functions that ...

CHAPTER 5 | BANDS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 117 date: ca. 1863–64 performers: The American Brass Quintet Brass Band genre: dance mus ...

118 PART 1 | FROM COLONIZATION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR AMERICA’S FIRST ORATORIO SOCIETY On Christmas night in 1815, a concert took ...