ABSTRACT
Survey of sacred and secular music in the United States from the seventeenth century to the 1980s. Most useful sections concerning religious music include “The Musical Puritans,” “Conflict and Reform,” “Dissenters and Minority Sects,” “American Pioneers,” “Progress, Profit, and Uplift,” “Fasola Folk,” “Revival Hymns and Spiritual Songs,” and “The Negro Spirituals.” Musical examples, facsimiles, illustrations, and photographs; bibliography of more than seven hundred writings; discographical essay by William Brooks discusses recordings of concert, folk, commercial, and jazz music; general index favors the inclusion of persons and titles with less emphasis on subjects.
