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America's Musical Landscape provides readers with an extensive understanding of the progression of American music over time, together with an appreciation of music's diverse cultural roots. Chapters are enhanced by more than 80 Listening Examples and more than 115 Optional Listening Examples, connections to other arts, and Thinking Critically boxes throughout. Ultimately, the music fundamentals covered will enable students to listen to new music receptively and creatively.

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  • PART 1 - Music in Early North America
  • Chapter 1 North American Indian Music
  • Chapter 2 Early Folk Music
  • Chapter 3 Religious Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
  • Chapter 4 Secular Music in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Periods
  • PART 2 - The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 5 Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 6 Popular Music of the Civil War Era
  • Chapter 7 Concert Music
  • PART 3 - The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
  • Chapter 8 The Rise of Popular Culture
  • Chapter 9 The Jazz Age
  • Chapter 10 Jazz 1930-1960
  • Chapter 11 Country Music
  • Chapter 12 Latin Popular Musics
  • PART 4 - Vernacular Musics Since Rock and Roll
  • Chapter 13 Rock and Roll
  • Chapter 14 Rock Flirts with Country
  • Chapter 15 Late Twentieth-Century Jazz
  • Chapter 16 Popular Music in the Late Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 17 Vernacular Music in the Twenty-First Century
  • PART 5 - Music for Theater and Film
  • Chapter 18 Musical Theater
  • Chapter 19 Music for Films
  • Chapter 20 American Opera
  • PART 6 - Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
  • Chapter 21 Experimental Music: Revolution
  • Chapter 22 Early Twentieth-Century Mainstream Concert Music: Evolution
  • Chapter 23 The Avant-Garde, Continued
  • Chapter 24 The Recent Mainstream
  • The Charge
  • Glossary
  • Index

About the Author

Jean Ferris

After receiving her MA in Music History and Literature at Arizona State University, Jean Ferris taught Music History and Appreciation at ASU. In addition to her work at the University, she has been involved with the music community by serving as a church choir director, singing with the Phoenix Symphony Chorale, playing the organ, and touring to Japan with her high school handbell choir--apparently the first handbell choir to perform in that country.

Ferris is the author of two books: Music: The Art of Listening and America's Musical Landscape.

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