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"Music, American Made draws on a wealth of new research and analysis to offer fresh observations on musical events and developments in American music from the 1820s to the 1970s, and brings into timely relief the extraordinary diversity of music composed and performed in the United States in that pivotal period. The twenty-nine essays in the volume honor John Graziano, a distinguished scholar of American music, Emeritus Professor of Music at The Graduate Center and The City College of The City University of New York, former President of the Society for American Music, and the director of the Music in Gotham project. Topics range from particular interests of the honoree - the reception of European music in New York and other U.S. cities, African-American musical theater, the minstrel show, the film musical - to, among other subjects, the growth of orchestras in the United States, opera, folk music, and hymnody."--Back cover.
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This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
A former key federal aviation safety inspector-investigator details and documents the culture and misconduct responsible for certain specific airline disasters during the past 50 years, including the area of primary blame for the 9/11 hijackings.
Joseph F. Lamb (1887-1960) composed with enthusiasm and was influenced by a variety of sources, all kinds of music, cultures, traditions and the everyday. Although he is considered one of classic ragtime's "big three"--along with Scott Joplin and James Scott--he did not fit the usual profile. He was musically self-taught, held a corporate job, and composed in his spare time, yet wrote piano rags Joplin enthusiastically championed and returned to composing and well-deserved recognition long after the end of the ragtime era. This biography focuses on his music and his world, and is drawn from family and research sources. It includes a foreword by two of Lamb's children.