| Contents |
CD contents. God bless America / Irving Berlin; arranged by Nelson Riddle (Kate Smith, vocalist; orchestra conducted by Riddle) -- Yankee Doodle / Traditional (Pete Seeger, vocals) -- New women's shuffle dance: Askaanyea guynawsay (Young Nation (Seneca); Gary Parker, leader) -- Oye como va / Tito Puente (Tito Puente and his orchestra) -- Pretty Polly / Traditional (E.C. Ball, voice, with guitar) -- One morning in May / Traditional (Texas Gladden, vocals) -- Diamond Joe / Traditional (Charlie Butler, vocals) -- Soldier's joy/Traditional (Nashville Washboard Band) -- Oh, Susanna / Stephen Foster (Pete Seeger, vocals) -- Go dating with my love: for Chinese bamboo flute / (unknown performer) -- Bittersweet music / Bun-ching Lam (Paul Taub, piccolo) -- Batey / Tania Leon in collaboration with Michael Camilo (Western Wind Vocal Ensemble; Puntilla; New Generation; accompanying percussion; Tania Leon, conductor) -- Hello song / made and sung by Nicholas R. Charles -- Aloha e ke kai o Kalalau / Traditional (Emily Kau'l-o Makaweli-ona-lani-o-ka-Mano-o-kalani-po-Kukahiwa Zuttermeister, Noenoelani Zuttermeister Lewis, Hau-Olionalani Lewis, vocals) -- U. S. highball / Harry Partch (Thomas Coleman; Gate 5 Ensemble Jack McKenzie, conductor) -- Letter / Harry Partch (Partch, voice and ensemble) -- Banshee / Henry Cowell (Cowell, piano) -- Gong on the hook and ladder / Charles Ives (Eva Gruesser, Mia Wu, violins; Rachel Evans, viola; Beverly Lauridsen, cello; Joel Sachs, piano and bass drum) -- Goodnight, Irene / Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly, vocals) -- This land is your land ; I ain't got no home / Woody Guthrie (Guthrie, vocals) -- Gray goose / Traditional (Leadbelly, vocals) -- Cuban overture: [excerpt] / George Gershwin (New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor) -- Clave pattern / (field recording, 1981, NYC, by A. Reyes) -- We shall overcome / C. A. Tindley (sung in 1964 mass meeting, Hattiesburg, Miss.) -- Swanee River / Stephen Foster (Pete Seeger, vocals) -- Stars and stripes / John Philip Sousa (New England Music Camp Symphonic Band; Leon Gregorian, conductor) -- Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Kate A. Katigbak, piano) -- Lincoln portrait: [excerpt] / Aaron Copland (James Earl Jones, speaker; Seattle Symphony and Chorale; Gerard Scharz, conductor) -- Barbara Allen / Traditional (Pete Seeger, vocals) -- Caverns / Jason Kao Hwang and the Far East Side Band -- Stomp dance / Carlos Nakai and AmoChip Dabney (Nakai, flute; Dabney, saxophone) -- Mart: excerpt / Ali N. Askin -- Mart-(inique): remix [of Mart] / Kai Filkentscher. |
| Abstract |
America's music is a perennial work in progress. This book looks at both the roots of American musical identity and its many manifestations, seeking to answer the complex question: "What does American music sound like?" Focusing on three themes--identity, diversity, and unity--it explores where America's music comes from, who makes it, and for what purpose. Rather than chronologically tracing America's musical history, the author considers how musical culture is shaped by space and time, by geography and history, by social, economic, and political factors, and by people who use music to express themselves within a community. Introducing the diversity that dominates the contemporary American musical landscape, Reyes draws on a dazzling range of musical styles--from ethnic and popular music idioms to contemporary art music--to highlight the ways in which sounds from various cultural origins come to share a national identity. |
