In CONSORT
An American Music by Call Number: ML200.5 .T55 1986ISBN: 0195040236Publication Date: 1986-09-11For most of our histoy, Americans have felt a deep-seated inferiority in the face of European high art, and most patriotic Americans have believed a complete break from European influence was required in order to develop a distinctive and distinguished American music. Barbara Tischler takes the opposite position: this country's concert music composers did not succeed in writing music that was respected here and abroad until they involved themselves in the international movement to free music from its nineteenth-century Romantic constraints.
American Music in the Twentieth Century by Call Number: ML200.5 .G36 1997ISBN: 002864655XPublication Date: 1997-11-21
The Cambridge History of American Music by Call Number: ML200 .C36 1998ISBN: 0521454298Publication Date: 1998-11-19
Music Cultures in the United States by Call Number: ML3917.U6 M87 2005ISBN: 0415965888Publication Date: 2005-01-02- Music in a New Found Land byCall Number: ML200 .M44 1987ISBN: 019520526XPublication Date: 1987-08-13
Selling Sounds by ISBN: 9780674054684Publication Date: 2009-09-30From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman's Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Around the turn of the twentieth century, music entrepreneurs laid the foundation for today's vast industry, with new products, technologies, and commercial strategies to incorporate music into the daily rhythm of modern life.
The William Grant Still Reader: Essays on American Music by Call Number: ML410.S855 A5 1992Publication Date: 1992
Digital Collections
- American Music CollectionDocuments this country's diverse popular music and performance traditions. The strength of these collections is the music of the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries including Big Band jazz, Gospel and African American sacred music, and folk music.
- American Roots MusicOriginally a four-part PBS series, the website offers an archive of materials and hyperlinks covered in the episodes.
- The Black Music History Library"This is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. Resources are organized chronologically and by genre for ease of browsing."
- Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United StatesThe information contained in the Folklife Sourcebook reflects the broad reach of professional folklore and folklife networks and the many allied pursuits and activities involving folklore and folklife studies and programming in the arts and social sciences, public programs, and educational institutions.
- Fort Valley State College Folk FestivalsConsists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College.
- HIstoric American Sheet Music (Duke University)This site provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
- I Hear America SingingIntegrates the collections, commissions and live concerts of the Library of Congress, allowing users to discover the Library's music and performing-arts collections through a single gateway on the Web. The site brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
- Omaha Indian MusicThis site features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s.
- Popular American MusicA digital collection of late 19th & early 20th century sheet music and recordings that are in the public domain anda subset of UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular Music, which covers the history of popular music in the US from 1790-present.
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern State Recording TripA multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as field notes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States.