Note: This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to show the current scope of resource materials for the teaching of American Music.
A Selective Bibliography of Textbooks
General:
Boroff, Edith. Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States. New York: Ardsley House, 1995.
Crawford, Richard. The American Musical Landscape. University of California Press, 1993.
Chase, Gilbert. America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Ferris, Jean. America's Musical Landscape. Madison, Wisc.: Brown & Benchmark, 1998.
With two CDs.
Hamm, Charles. Music in the New World. New York: Norton, 1983.
Written to correspond to the New World series of recordings, featuring over 164 fine recordings funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and distributed to schools nationwide, Harry Smith's 6-record set Anthology of American Music, the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, and the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music.
Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Music in the United States : a historical introduction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Kingman, Dan. American Music, A Panorama. New York: Schirmer, 1990.
Fine bibliographies and discographies follow each chapter. Complete coverage of all styles and genres of music, including classical, folk, popular, and religious.
Kingman, Dan. American Music, A Panorama. Concise Edition. New York: Schirmer, 1998.
With three CDs.
Mellers, Willfrid. Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Special Topics:
Austin, William. Twentieth Century American Masters. NewYork: Norton, 1997.
________. "Susanna," "Jeanie," and "The Old Folks At Home" : The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours. New York : Macmillan, 1975
Campbell, Michael. And the Beat Goes On: An Introduction to Popular Music in America, 1840 to Today. New York: Schirmer, 1996.
Strong coverage of contemporary music including Latin. With 8 accompanying CDs.
Dizikes, John. Opera in America, A Cultural History.* New Haven: Yale, 1993.
Floyd, Samuel A. The Power of Black Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Friedlander, Paul. Rock and Roll : A Social History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Gann, Kyle. American Music in the Twentieth Century. New York: Schirmer, 1997.
Coverage of American Art Music of the Twentieth Century intended to be accessible to the general studies student.
Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song. New York: Norton, 1979.
Joyner, David Lee. American Popular Music. Madison, Wisc.: Brown and Benchmark.
Coverage of Tin Pan Alley, African-American, Country and Anglo-American, and Rock styles. Written to correspond to the Smithsonian collections of jazz, popular song, musical theater, and country and the Time-Life anthologies of rock.
Kernfield, Barry. What to Listen For in Jazz. NewHaven: Yale, 1995.
Lornell, Kip. Introducing American Folk Music. Madison, Wisc.: Brown and Benchmark, 1993.
Includes large sections on Afro- and Anglo-American topics with coverage of Native, Hawaiian, Franco-American, Latino, and Scandinavian musics. With one cassette.
Lornell, Kip and Anne Rasmussen. Music of Multicultural America. New York, 1997.
Includes information on twelve of the music cultures that constitute America's musical landscape drawing on ethnomusicology, musical and cultural history, and anthropology, an interdisciplinary approach. With accompanying CD.
Oliver, Paul. Gospel, Blues, and Jazz. New York: Norton, 1997.
Roach, Hidlred. Black American Music: Past and Present. Malabar, Flax: Krieger Publishing, 1992.
Robinette, Richard and Thomas Pasqua. Historical Perspectives in Popular Music. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1993.
Coverage of the sources of African-American, Anglo-American, jazz, musical theater, and rock musics to the 1990s.
Caldwell, Hansonia L. African-American Music: A Chronology, 1619-1995. Los Angeles: Ikoror Communications, 1996
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans. 3rd edition New York: Norton, 1997.
________, ed. Readings in Black American Music. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1983.
Tirro, Frank. Jazz, A History. 2nd edition. New York: Norton, 1993
Titon, Jeff Todd. Worlds of Music. New York: Schirmer, 1996.
Includes three American topics in a survey study of music of indigenous cultures of Africa, North and South America, Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, and Japan. With three CDs.