Rethinking American Music

Tara Browner is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance in the Northern Pow-Wow. Thomas L. Riis is Professor of Music Emeritus and former director of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Frank Loesser.

"The editors identify four overarching issues in the book: performance, patronage, identity, and ethnography. Each theme encompasses three or four essays. Such an ambitious endeavor is laudable." --American Music"Rethinking American Music succeeds by honoring forebears, emphasizing areas of strength, reconfiguring some foundational narratives, and proffering some new scholarly directions." --Journal of Folklore Research"A marvelous compendium of scholarship in American music, this book illustrates the wondrous diversity of American musical culture from the eighteenth century to today. Essays on classical, sacred, popular, jazz, hip hop, and theatrical styles deal with performance, patronage, identity, and ethnography and illustrate wonderfully the breadth of Crawford's enormous legacy in the field of Americanist music studies."--Katherine K. Preston, author of Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late Nineteenth-Century America

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: PERFORMANCE1. Balance of Power: Music as Art and Social Class in the Late Nineteenth Century2. From Flatbush to Fun Home: The Broadway Musical's "Cozy Cottage" Trope3. Secular Music in Shape NotesPART II: PATRONAGE4. Love in a Village and a New Direction for Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century America5. "We're Marching to Zion": Isaac Watts in America6. Living in the (Publishing) House of Music: A Short History of Composer-Driven Independent Publishing and Distribution in the United States7. American Music Goes to School: A Point of View and a Case in PointPART III: IDENTITY8. Bodies of Music / Songs of Magic9. Defying Boundaries and Escaping Stereotypes: African American Entertainers in the Late Nineteenth Century10. The "Most Distinctive and Biggest Benefit that Broadway Has Ever Known": Producing, Performing, and Applauding across the Color Line in the Twilight of the Jazz Age11. Dialogue without Words: Identities and Dichotomies in Copland's Piano QuartetPART V: ETHNOGRAPHY12. Ferruccio Busoni and The Indians' Book13. Fieldwork on the American Campus14. Authorship in the Age of Configurable Music15. Mark Tucker, Thelonious Monk, and "Misterioso"ContributorsIndex