The Cambridge History of American Music

The Cambridge History of Music

by David Nicholls (Editor)

The Cambridge History of American Music is the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. The volume begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the historical and cultural events of musical life for the period up to 1900. Other contributors then examine the growth of popular music, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional music. The volume also includes chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Music, Reference

654 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 1998

About the author

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David Nicholls is a British musicologist and composer. Since August 2000 he has been Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. From 1987 to 2000 he was Professor of Music and Research Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Keele University. Between 1984 until 1987 Nicholls was based at Selwyn College, Cambridge as a Keasbey Fellow in American Studies.

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