Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion

by Judith Tick

Book Overview

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195139887
• ISBN13: 9780195139884
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 920 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"