American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred YearsVolume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley. |
Contents
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Sheet Music Publishing in PreCivil War America | 47 |
American Musical Theater 18001860 | 146 |
The Music of Gods Americans 18001860 | 179 |
The Singinest War 18611865 | 225 |
The Music of Gods Americans 18651909 | 247 |
Black Music in America 18601909 | 269 |
The American Musical Theater 18651909 | 303 |
Popular Music in the Age of Gigantism 18661909 | 346 |
Bibliography | 421 |
Index | 447 |
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Popular passages
Page 146 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?
Page 187 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith; Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith ; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — ' Just read on his medal, "My country,
Page 238 - Father, dear father, come home with me now ! The clock in the steeple strikes two ; The night has grown colder — and Benny is worse—- But he has been calling for you.
Page 238 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 214 - Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave is not liked by masters or overseers. '•Make a noise,' 'make a noise,' and ' 'bear a hand,' are the words usually addressed to the slaves when there is silence amongst them. This may account for the almost constant singing heard in the southern states. There was generally more or less singing among the teamsters, as it was one means of letting the overseer know where they were, and that they were moving on with the work.
Page 433 - States, and a summary of the Copyright laws at present in force in the chief countries of the world ; together with a report of the legislation now pending in Great Britain, a sketch of the contest in the United States, 1837-1891, in behalf of International Copyright, and certain papers on the development of the conception of literary property and on the results of the American law of 1891.
Page 146 - What have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? Or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets? — Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a Slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture?
Page 181 - The subject in a very happy state of mind would sing most melodiously, not from the mouth or nose, but entirely in the breast, the sounds issuing thence. Such music silenced everything, and attracted the attention of all. It was most heavenly. None could ever be tired of hearing it...
Page 170 - Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut; snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels like nothing but the man's fingers on the tambourine ; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs — all sorts of legs and no legs — what is this to him?
Page 398 - ... distribute, or let for hire any device, contrivance, or appliance especially adapted in any manner whatsoever to reproduce to the ear the whole or any material part of any work published and copyrighted after this Act shall have gone into effect...