Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States (eBook, ePUB)

Extending the Legacy of Kate Van Winkle Keller
Redaktion: Lohman, Laura

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000388954
• Artikelnr.: 61343809

Autorenporträt

Laura Lohman is Professor of Music and Director at Queens University of Charlotte. Her previous publications in music include Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007 (2010) and Hail Columbia! American Music and Politics in the Early Nation (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

David K. Hildebrand and Laura Lohman

Part I Interpreting Material Objects of Music and Dance Culture

1. Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index


Raoul F. Camus


2. Aaron Thompson, His Book of Notes: First American Transcription of Five Country Dances From the Revolutionary War era
   
   Richard C. Spicer



3. A Scrapbooking President and a Few Good Tunes: Researching Early American Musical Practices through the Jefferson-Randolph Family Scrapbooks


Laura Lohman

Part II Situating Dance and Its Music in Early American Society


4. Keller's Approach: New Perspectives in Dance History


Heather Blasdale Clarke


5. Successful Campaigns: The Commercialization of Leisure and Self-Presentation in Early America


Graham Christian


6. Mozart, America's First Waltz-King


Michael Broyles

Part III Research and Contemporary Performance


7. A Practical Guide for Recreating Early American Music: Thoughts after 40 Years in the Trenches


David K. Hildebrand


8. Soundscapes of Tradition: Ancient Fifing and Drumming and the Embodiment of Place in the Connecticut River Valley


Timothy Murray


9. Imagining Colonial America and the Early Republic in Musical Theater: Historical Tensions and Creative Possibilities in Dearest Enemy (1925) and Hamilton (2015)


William A. Everett

Conclusion

Laura Lohman, David K. Hildebrand, and Heather Blasdale Clarke

Postlude

Robert M. Keller, Anne Keller Geraci, and Margaret Keller Dimock

Rezensionen

"the range of topics and theoretical approaches are of great value to scholars, with insights into an evolution from English practice to the different milieu of the new country. - Anne Daye, Folk music Journal