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Aspects of the history of music in early America and the history of early American music.

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateu

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music. The United States entered World War I, jazz burst onto the national

Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and r

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. A