search for books and compare prices
popular music united states 1901 history criticism matches 6 work(s)
displaying 1 to 6 | at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9781442253865 Cover for 9780918728388 Cover for 9781578064991 Cover for 9781604732443 Cover for 9780879721572 Cover for 9780195057508 Cover for 9780195113822 Cover for 9780028725413
cover image for 9781604732443

Hardcover:

9781578064991 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 1, 2003, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9781604732443 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, March 1, 2009, cover price $40.00

Popular parlor songs were the main form of secular musical entertainment in the early years of the United States. They were heard regularly in the homes of our principal statesmen, authors, intellectuals, professionals, and businessmen. Laborers and slaves also sang them. They were the principal fare of concert and stage performances, and were freely interpolated into Italian operas, Shakespearean plays, lyceum lectures, and church services. In short, parlor songs played a dominant role in American cultural history.    This was the music that Jefferson, Lincoln, Longfellow, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson enjoyed. Yet, whether owing to prejudice or misinformation, we still know little about the songs they listened to and sang: why and for whom written; when heard; or how performed.    This book attempts to contribute that knowledge. Contemporary diaries, biographies, fiction, newspapers, periodicals, and books on music were studied and the music itself exhaustively analyzed in order to reach accurate conclusions about the popular culture that emerged between the American Revolution and the Civil War.    The reader comes away with a sympathetic understanding of the human hopes, fears, and joys embodied in the songs, and with a curiosity about the countless melodic gems awaiting exploration.

Hardcover:

9780879721305 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, August 1, 1980, cover price $17.95

Paperback:

9780879721572 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, August 1, 1980, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Popular parlor songs were the main form of secular musical entertainment in the early years of the United States.

cover image for 9780195113822
In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grouping songs topically. He goes on to explore the interaction between musical style and lyrics within each topic. The lyrics and changing musical styles present a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century America. The composers discussed in the book range from Henry Russell ("Woodman, Spare That Tree"), Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna"), and Dan Emmett ("I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land"), to George M. Cohan and Maude Nugent ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady"), and Gussie Lord Davis ("In the Baggage Coach Ahead"). Readers will recognize songs like "Pop Goes the Weasel," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "The Fountain in the Park," "After the Ball," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and many others which gain significance by being placed in the larger context of American history. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780195057508 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 9, 1994, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs.

Paperback:

9780195113822 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 3, 1997), cover price $83.00

cover image for 9780028725413
Product Description: Book includes Musical scores, index, selective bibliography of songs from 1866 to 1910, from just after the American Civil War to just before the First World War.

Hardcover:

9780028725413 | Gale / Cengage Learning, May 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book includes Musical scores, index, selective bibliography of songs from 1866 to 1910, from just after the American Civil War to just before the First World War.

displaying 1 to 6 | at end