Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this b

This book brings together a trail blazing collection of music scholars to explore the intersections, frictions, and resonances between nineteenth-century Americ

The Cambridge History of American Music, first published in 1998, celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It was the first study of music in the Unit

During the nineteenth century the households of advantaged Americans were tempered by a widely accepted parlor culture that informed the construction of gender