Music 526: Music in the United States
Supplementary Readings:
- Reid Badger, A Life in Ragtime: A Birography of James Reese
Europe (New York, Oxford University Press, 1995).
- Edward A. Berlin, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Michael Broyles, Music of the Highest Class: Elitism and
Populism in Antebellum Boston (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1992).
- Geoffrey Block, Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from
"Show Boat" to Sondheim (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Raoul F. Camus, Military Music of the American Revolution
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976).
- Gilbert Chase, America's Music from the Pilgrims to the Present
rev. 3d ed., (University of Illinois Press, 1987).
- Dale Cockrell, Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and
Their World (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
- Richard Crawford, The American Musical Landscape (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993).
- Richard Crawford and Paul Griffiths, United States of America, in Oxford
Music Online [MSWord .doc file]
- Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., The Power of Black Music (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1995).
- Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century New
York: Schirmer, 1997.
- Charles Hamm, Music in the New World (New York:
Norton, 1983).
- Charles Hamm, Yesterdays (New York:
Norton, 1979).
- H. Wiley Hitchcock, Music in the United States: A Historical
Introduction, 3d edition (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988).
- Barbara Lambert, ed. Music in Colonial Massachusetts
1630-1820. 2 vols. (Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
1980, 1985).
- Irving Lowens, Music and Musicians in Early America. (New
York: Norton: 1984).
- David P. McKay and Richard Crawford, William Billings of
Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer (Princeton University Press,
1975).
- Stephen A. Marini, Sacred Song in America (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2003).
- Thomas L. Riis, Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New
York, 1890-1915 (Smithsonian Institution, 1994).
- Gunther Schuller, Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1968).
- Gunther Schuller, The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
- Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans, 3d ed. (New York:
Norton, 1998).
- Frederick S. Starr, Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau
Gottschalk (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
- Larry Starr, A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles
Ives (New York, Schirmer, 1992).
- David Warren Steel, with Richard H. Hulan, The Makers of the
Sacred Harp (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010).
- Richard J. Wolfe, Early American Music Engraving and Printing
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980).