American music : a panorama /
Daniel Kingman.
- Concise ed.
- New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Prentice Hall International, c1998.
- xiv, 433 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Folk and ethnic musics. The Anglo-American tradition ; The African-American tradition ; The American Indian tradition ; The Latino tradition -- Part 2. Three prodigious offspring of the rural South. Country music ; Blues and soul: from country to city ; Rock and its progeny -- Part 3. Popular sacred music. From Psalm tune to rural revivalism ; Urban revivalism and gospel music -- Part 4. Popular secular music. Secular music in the cities from colonial times to the Jacksonian era ; Popular musical theatre from the Jacksonian era to the present ; Popular song, dance, and march music from the Jacksonian era tot eh advent of rock -- Part 5. Jazz and its forerunners. Ragtime and pre-jazz ; Jazz -- Part 6. Classical music. Laying the foundation: accomplishments from the Jacksonian era to World War I ; The evolving tradition, 1920-1970 ; Modernism I: new ways with old tools ; Modernism II: the impact of technology and new esthetic concepts ; Modernism transcended: autonomy, assimilation, and accessibility ; Opera old and new -- Part 7. Regionalism and diversity. Three regional samplings.