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America's Musical Life: A History - Richard Crawford, America's Musical Life: A History. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001. xvi + 976 pp. ISBN 0 393 04810 1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

David Nicholls
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 127 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 321 - 324
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References

1 Richard Crawford, ‘Foreword’ to Gilbert Chase, America's Music – From the Pilgrims to the Present (rev. 3rd edn, Urbana and Chicago, 1987), p. xi.Google Scholar

2 Ibid.Google Scholar

3 Quoted in ibid., p. xiv.Google Scholar

4 John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years Of It (New York, 1931).Google Scholar

5 Crawford, ‘Foreword’ to Chase, America's Music, p. xv. The criticisms Crawford quotes are those of Chase himself. Lest there be any doubt regarding the radicalism of Howard's approach, a comparison with such contemporaneous British volumes as Constant Lambert's Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline (London, 1934) and Eric Blom's Music in England (Harmondsworth, 1942) is instructive.Google Scholar

6 Henry Cowell, ed., American Composers on American Music: A Symposium (Stanford, 1933; repr. New York, 1962).Google Scholar

7 For Beach's comments, alongside those of other prominent American musicians of the later nineteenth century, see Block, Adrienne Fried, ‘Boston Talks Back to Dvořák’, Newsletter of the Institute for Studies in American Music, 18/2 (May 1989), 10–11, 15.Google Scholar

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9 Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau Official Statistics, published 21 September 1998; see especially sections 20 (The Hispanic Population) and 21 (The Asian and Pacific Islander Population).Google Scholar

10 Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (London, 1997), 281.Google Scholar