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From Jehovah to jazz : music in America from psalmody to the present day
- Title
- From Jehovah to jazz : music in America from psalmody to the present day / by Helen L. Kaufmann ; illustrations by Alajalov.
- Author
- Kaufmann, Helen L.
- Publication
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1937.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ML200.K16 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 303 pages : frontispiece, illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- In original dust jacket.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- One little psalm book and how it grew -- Indian War and other whoops -- Black Americans, their spirituals and folk songs -- Other American folk songs, three bags full -- Rah-rah songs of college and country -- The sentimental ballad and its foster father -- Imported opera : the bridegroom -- American opera : the bride -- The care and feeding of the symphony orchestra -- Symphonic composers, our musical aristocracy -- Music whose place was in the home, though it did not remain there -- The wandering minstrels and the Great Black Way -- Blacks and blues and ragtime, the missing link -- Jazz and its composers, our musical proletariat -- Prophecy : a heaven without maps.
- LCCN
- 38027004
- OCLC
- ocm01261894
- 1261894
- SCSB-338432
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library