New World Symphonies : How American Culture

This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Acknowledging the impact of European tradition on American composers, Jack Sullivan contends that, beginning in the nineteenth century, an even more powerful musical current flowed from the New World to the Old.

Acknowledgments

ix

(2)

Introduction

xi

CHAPTER ONE. The Legacy of the Sorrow Songs

1

(46)

CHAPTER TWO. Hiawatha Fever: The Legacy of Longfellow

47

(14)

CHAPTER THREE. New Worlds of Terror: The Legacy of Poe

61

(34)

CHAPTER FOUR. New World Songs: The Legacy of Whitman

95

(36)

CHAPTER FIVE. Beyond the Frontier: New World Landscape

131

(30)

CHAPTER SIX. Broadway, Hollywood, and the Accidental Beauties of Silly Songs

161

(30)

CHAPTER SEVEN. New World Rhythm: The Spread of Jazz

191

(48)

Notes

239

(12)

Index

251

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New World Symphonies : How American Culture Changed European Music

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