America's Musical Life: A History.
By Richard Crawford. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-04810-1
(cloth). Pp. xv, 976. $45.00.
An Introduction to America's Music. By Richard Crawford. New
York: W. W. Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-97409-X (pbk.). Pp. xiv, 555. $33.50.
To Stretch Our Ears: A Documentary History of America's Music.
Edited by J. Heywood Alexander. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0393-97411-1
(pbk.). Pp. xx, 508. $22.75.
This review is centered on Richard Crawford's massive new history, America's
Musical Life. Also considered, though briey, are his abbreviated textbook
version, An Introduction to America's Music (and the three-CD set of recordings
accompanying it), and J. Heywood Alexander's annotated anthology of readings,
To Stretch Our Ears: A Documentary History of America's Music, which parallels
both of Crawford's books.
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