David Nicholls is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of American Experimental Music, 1890-1940 (Cambridge, 1990) and contributing editor of The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium (1997), and The Cambridge Companion to John Cage (2002). He is also editor of the journal American Music.
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Notes on contributors
Editor's preface
Part I: 1. American Indian musics, past and present Victoria Lindsay Levine
2. Music in America: an overview (part 1) William Brooks
3. Secular music to 1800 Kate Van Winkle Keller with John Koegel
4. Sacred music to 1800 Nym Cooke
5. African-American music to 1900 Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
6. Immigrant, folk and regional musics in the nineteenth century Michael Broyles
7. Nineteenth-century popular music Dale Cockrell
8. Art music from 1800 to 1860 Katherine K. Preston
9. Art music from 1860 to 1920 Michael Broyles
Part II: 10. Music in America: an overview (part 2) William Brooks
11. Immigrant, folk and regional musics in the twentieth century Philip V. Bohlman
12. Popular song and popular music on stage and film Stephen Banfield
13. The rock and roll era Robert Walser
14. Ragtime and early jazz Jeffrey Magee
15. Jazz from 1930 to 1960 David Joyner
16. Jazz since 1960 Ronald Radano
17. Tonal traditions in art music from 1920 to 1960 Larry Starr
18. Serialism and complexity Stephen Peles
19. Avant-garde and experimental music David Nicholls
20. Tonal traditions in art music since 1960 Jonathan W. Bernard
Bibliography and references
Index.
