An Introduction to America’s Music

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CHAPTER 3 “HOW SWEET THE SOUND”: SACRED MUSIC

IN THE NEW REPUBLIC 63

The Rise and Fall of New England Psalmody | Singing Praises: Southern and

Frontier Devotional Music | Edifi cation and Economics: The Career of Lowell

Mason | LG 3.1. Daniel Read, Sherburne | LG 3.2. Anonymous, Wondrous Love |

LG 3.3. Lowell Mason, Olivet

CHAPTER 4 “MAKE A NOISE”: AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC BEFORE

THE CIVIL WAR 86

The African Roots of American Music | Traditional African American Music

Making | Regional Differences in Antebellum Black Music Making | The Music of

Black Worship | LG 4.1. Anonymous, “Carrie Belle” | LG 4.2. Anonymous, “Am I a Soldier of

the Cross?” | LG 4.3. Anonymous, “Jubilee”

CHAPTER 5 “A LANGUAGE OF FEELING”: CULTIVATING MUSICAL

TASTES IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 106

Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry | Italian Opera in the United

States | Bands in Antebellum America | America’s First Oratorio Society |

Classical Instrumental Music Comes to Boston and New York | Louis Moreau

Gottschalk: A New Orleans Original | LG 5.1. Walter Dignam, arr., Helene Schottische |

LG 5.2. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, The Banjo: An American Sketch

CHAPTER 6 “THE ETHIOPIAN BUSINESS”: MINSTRELSY AND

POPULAR SONG THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR 132

Blacks, W hites, and the Minstrel Stage | The Sheet Music Industry and Parlor Songs | Songs

of Social Reform and War | LG 6.1. Dan Emmett, “De Boatman’s Dance” | LG 6.2. Stephen C. Foster,

“De Camptown Races” | LG 6.3. Stephen C. Foster, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” | LG 6.4. Jesse

Hutchinson Jr., “Get Off the Track!” | LG 6.5. George F. Root, “The Battle Cry of Freedom”

PART 2 AMERICA’S MUSIC FROM THE CIVIL

WAR THROUGH WORLD WAR I 162

CHAPTER 7 “AFTER THE BALL”: BAND MUSIC, GOSPEL HYMNS, AND

POPULAR SONGS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 164

Band Music after the Civil War | Popular Songs after the Civil War | Industrialization

and the Rise of Gospel Music | The Rise of Tin Pan Alley | LG 7.1. John Philip Sousa, The

Stars and Stripes Forever | LG 7.2. Joseph P. Webster, “Sweet By and By” | LG 7.3 Charles K. Harris,

“After the Ball”

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