American music a panorama

This best-selling survey text describes American music as a panorama of distinct yet parallel streams-popular, folk, sacred, and classical-that reflect the uniquely diverse character of the United States. Comparing and contrasting musical styles across regions and time, Candelaria and Kingman delive...

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Main Author: Candelaria, Lorenzo
Other Authors: Lorenzo Candelaria; Daniel Kingman
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Belmont, CA Thomson/Schirmer 2007
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Summary:This best-selling survey text describes American music as a panorama of distinct yet parallel streams-popular, folk, sacred, and classical-that reflect the uniquely diverse character of the United States. Comparing and contrasting musical styles across regions and time, Candelaria and Kingman deliver a vision of American music both exuberant and inventive, a music that arises out of the history and musical traditions of the many immigrants to America's shores
Physical Description:xvii, 364 p.
ill.
24 cm
ISBN:0495128392
9780495128397