New World symphonies : how American culture changed European music

Sullivan, Jack 1946- (Author).

Summary: This book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorak in New York. Sullivan explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, and he uncovers the African-American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartok, Walton, and other noted composers.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300072310
ISBN: 0300072317
ISBN: 9780300148572
ISBN: 0300148577
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
Copyright: �1999

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:june.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The legacy of the sorrow songs -- Hiawatha fever : the legacy of Longfellow -- New worlds of terror : the legacy of Poe -- New World songs : the legacy of Whitman -- Beyond the frontier : New World landscape -- Broadway, Hollywood and the accidental beauties of silly songs -- New World rhythm : the spread of jazz.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.