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Table of Contents

Author's guide to the Panorama of American music
pt. I. Folk and ethnic musics
1. The Anglo-Celtic-American tradition
Imported ballads
"Barbara Allen" (H.J. Beeker)
Features common to most ballads
Naturalized ballads
"Gypsy Davy" (Woody Guthrie)
Native ballads
"John Hardy" (The Carter Family)
Print and the ballad
Fiddle tunes
"Soldier's joy" (Marion Sumner)
Print and the fiddle tune
Play-party songs
"Old man at the mill" (Clint Howard, Fred Price, Doc Watson)
Projects
Additional listening
2. The African American tradition
African music and its relation to black music in America
"Music in praise of a Yoruba Chief" (Nigeria)
Religious folk music : the spiritual
"Sheep, sheep, don't you know the road" (Bessie Jones, Sea Island Singers)
"Jacob's ladder" (Paul Robeson)
Secular folk music
"Quittin' time song" (Samuel Brooks)
"John Henry" (Arthur Bell)
Projects
Additional listening
3. The American Indian tradition
Music in Indian life
The existential quality of songs
Types of songs according to purpose
"Pigeon's dream song" (Louis Pigeon, vocal ; Menominee, Northern Plains)
"Cherokee/creek stomp dance" (Eastern Woodlands)
"Butterfly dance" (an Juan Pueblo, New Mexico)
"Sioux love song" ( John Coloff, flute & vocal ; Lakota Plains)
Characteristics of Indian music
Indian Music and acculturation
"Ghost dance song" (Pawnee Plains)
"Rabbit dance" (Los Angeles Northern Singers)
Projects
Additional listening
4. Latino traditions
The legacy of the Spanish conquest
Sacred music from Mexico
"Al Pie de Este Santo Altar" (Luis Montoya, vocal ; Vincente Padilla, pito)
"Los Pastores" from Las Posadas (Franquilino Miranda and group)
Secular music from Mexico
"Las Abajeñas" (Mariachi Cobre)
"El Corrido de Gregorio Cortéz" (Los Hermanos Banda)
"Mal Hombre" (Lydia Mendoza)
The Caribbean and South America
"Para los Rumberos" (Tito Puente)
Projects
Additional listening
5. Diverse traditions : French, Scandinavian, Arab, and Asian
The French influence in Louisiana
"Midland two-step" (Michael Doucet, Beausoleil)
"Zydeco sont pas salé" (Clifton Chenier)
The Scandinavian influence in the upper Midwest
"Banjo, old time" (LeRoy Larson, Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble)
Arab American traditions
"Zaffat al-Hilu" (Majid Kakka, Bells Band)
The Asian influence
"Tampopo" (Nobuko Miyamoto)
Projects
Additional listening
6. Folk music as an instrument of advocacy
"The farmer is the man that feeds them all" (Fiddlin' John Carson)
The urban folk song movement of the 1930s and 1940s
"I am a union woman" (Aunt Molly Jackson)
Protest and folk song in the 1960s
"Masters of war" (Bob Dylan)
Freedom songs and the civil rights movement in the South
"We shall overcome" (SNCC)
Projects
Additional listening
pt. II. Three offspring of the rural South
7. Country music
Enduring themes
The "country sound"
Commercial beginnings : early recordings, radio, and the first stars
Jimmy Rodgers : the father of country music
"Muleskinner blues" (Jimmy Rodgers)
The West : cowboys, honky-tonks, and Western swing
"Cotton-eyed Joe" (Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys)
Postwar dissemination and full-scale commercialization
"I'm so lonesome I could cry" (Hank Williams)
"I'm blue again" (Patsy Cline)
"Blue eyes crying in the rain" (Willie Nelson)
The persistence and revival of traditional styles
"Muleskinner blues" (Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys)
"John Henry" (The Lilly Brothers)
Projects
Additional listening
8. The blues
Characteristics of the blues
"Countin' the blues" (Ma Rainey and Her Georgia Jazz Band)
"Prison cell blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
"Preachin' blues (Up jumped the devil)" (Robert Johnson)
Early published blues
Classic blues
Blues and jazz
Boogie-woogie
"Mr. Freddie Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis)
Selling the country blues
Urban blues
Blues at the turn of the century
"Texas flood" (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
Projects
Additional listening
9. Rock music
Rock's ties to rhythm and blues
"Good rockin' tonight" (Wynonie Harris)
"Rock around the clock" (Bill Haley and His Comets)
Reaching white audiences
The influence of country music
"That's all right" (Elvis Presley)
Trends from the 1960s to the present
"Good vibrations" (The Beach Boys)
"The star-spangled banner (Live at Woodstock)" (Jimi Hendrix)
"Eruption" (Van Halen)
"Sheena is a punk rocker" (The Ramones)
Projects
Additional listening
pt. III. Popular sacred music
10. From psalm tune to rural revivalism
Psalmody in America
"Amazing grace" (Congregation of the Old Regular Baptist Church)
The singing-school tradition
"Chester" (The Old Sturbridge Singers)
"Amity" (the Old Sturbridge Singers)
The frontier and rural America in the nineteenth century
"Wondrous love" (anonymous)
Music among smaller independent American sects
"'Tis the gift to be simple" (The United States of Shakers)
Projects
Additional listening
11. Urban revivalism and gospel music
Urban revivalism after the Civil War : the Moody-Sankey era of gospel hymns
"In the sweet by-and-by" (The Harmoneion Singers)
The Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver era : further popularization
"Brighten the corner where you are" (Homer Rodeheaver)
Gospel music after the advent of radio and recordings
"Give the world a smile" (The Stamps Quartet)
"He got better things for you" (Memphis Sanctified Singers)
"Swing down, chariot" (Golden Gate Quartet)
Projects
Additional listening
pt. IV. Popular secular music
12. Secular music in the cities from colonial times to the age of Andrew Jackson
Concerts and dances
"The college hornpipe" (Rodney Miller)
Bands and military music
"Lady Hope's reel" (American Fife Ensemble)
"Washington's march" (The Liberty Tree Wind Players)
Musical theater
"Chorus of adventurers" from the Indian princess (Federal Music Society Opera)
Popular song
"Junto song" (Seth McCoy)
Projects
Additional listening
13. Popular musical theater and opera from the Jacksonian era to the present
Minstrelsy and musical entertainment before the Civil War
"De boatman's dance" (Ensemble)
From the Civil War through the turn of the century
"The Yankee doodle boy" (Richard Perry)
The first half of the twentieth century
The musical in its maturity : Show boat to West side story
"Cool" West side story (original Broadway cast)
The musical since West side story
Opera in America
"It ain't necessarily so" (Lawrence Tibbett)
Projects
Additional listening
14. Popular song, dance, and march music from the Jacksonian era to the advent of rock
Popular song from the 1830s through the Civil War
"Get off the track" (The Hutchinson Family Singers)
"Hard times come again no more" (The Hutchinson Family Singers)
"The battle cry of freedom" (George Shirley)
Popular song from the Civil War through the ragtime era
The band in America after the Jacksonian era
"The Washington Post march" (Advocate Brass Band)
Popular song from ragtime to rock
"Brother, can you spare a dime?" (Bing Crosby)
Tin Pan Alley and its relation to jazz and black vernacular music
The decline of Tin Pan Alley and the dispersion of the popular music industry
Projects
Additional listening
pt. V. Jazz and its forerunners
15. Ragtime and precursors of jazz
The context of ragtime from its origins to its zenith
"Hello! My baby" (Don Meehan, Dave Corey)
The musical characteristics of ragtime
"Maple leaf rag" (Scott Joplin)
The decline and dispersion of ragtime
"If dreams come true" (James P. Johnson)
The ragtime revival
Precursors of jazz
"Eternity" (Eureka Brass Band)
"Just a little while to stay here" (Eureka Brass Band)
Projects
Additional listening
16. Jazz
The New Orleans style : the traditional jazz of the early recordings
"Dippermouth blues" (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band)
"Hotter than that" (Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five)
Dissemination and change : before the swing era
The swing era and the big bands
"Ko-ko" (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra)
The emergence of modern jazz : bop as a turning point
"Koko" (Charlie Parker)
"Out of this world" (John Coltrane)
The pluralism of the last quarter-century
"Bitches brew" (Miles Davis)
Projects
Additional listening
pt. VI. Classical music
17. The search for an American identity
Music education before the Civil War
Music education and culture after the mid-nineteenth century
"Pawnee horses," Arthur Farwell (Dario Müller)
American music and American life
Rhapsody in blue, George Gershwin (Oscar Levant)
Afro-American symphony, William Grant Still (Fort Smith Symphony)
Appalachian spring, Aaron Copland (New York Philharmonic)
America's virtuoso cult
"The banjo," Louis Gottschalk (Eugene List)
"The battle of Manassas," Thomas Wiggins (John Davis)
Projects
Additional listening
18. Twentieth-century innovation and the contemporary world
Charles Ives : American innovator in music
Four New England holidays, Charles Ives (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
New York and Europe-related "modernism"
Hyperprism, Edgard Varese (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
Midcentury modernism
The West coast : Cowell, Harrison, and Partch
"The Banshee" (Henry Cowell)
New technology and the new music
Minimalism
Piano phase (Steve Reich)
Multimedia art and concept music
Classical music and the contemporary world
The bushy wushy rag, Philip Bimstein (Equinox Chamber Players)
Projects
Additional listening
19. Film music
A realistic film of the American west
Two films about the small town and the big city
Three career film composers
"The murder" Psycho, Bernard Herrmann (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
"The imperial march" Star Wars, John Williams (London Symphony Orchestra)
Epilogue
Projects
Additional listening
pt. VII. Music in your own backyard
20. Tales of two cities : Austin, Texas, and Sacramento, California
Classical music in Austin, Texas : aspects from the 1930s to World War I
The Sacramento Valley : a rich mix of cultures
Projects
References
Glossary
Photo credits
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.

Published in
Belmont, CA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780.973
Library of Congress
ML200 .C37 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 364 p. :
Number of pages
364

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24770334M
Internet Archive
americanmusicpan00cand
ISBN 10
0495128392
ISBN 13
9780495128397
LCCN
2005937010
OCLC/WorldCat
69243038

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