An Introduction to America’s Music

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CONTENTS IN BRIEF

INTRODUCTION 1

PART 1 AMERICA’S MUSIC FROM COLONIZATION

THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR 18

CHAPTER 1 “Nature Must Inspire the Thought”: Sacred Music in the

European Colonies 20

CHAPTER 2 “Old, Simple Ditties”: Secular Music in the Colonies and

Early Republic 44

CHAPTER 3 “How Sweet the Sound”: Sacred Music in the New

Republic 63

CHAPTER 4 “Make a Noise”: African American Music before the

Civil War 86

CHAPTER 5 “A Language of Feeling”: Cultivating Musical Tastes in

Antebellum America 106

CHAPTER 6 “The Ethiopian Business”: Minstrelsy and Popular Song through

the Civil War 132

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

CHAPTER 8 “To Stretch Our Ears”: Classical Music Comes of Age 183

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