Results for "Broyles, Michael"

The story of how unexpected connections between music, technology, and race across three tumultuous decades changed American culture. How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock ’n’ rol... Read More about Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds

Edited version of the 1837 journal of American musician Lowell Mason written while traveling through Europe. By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spe... Read More about Yankee Musician in Europe: The 1837 Journals of Lowell Mason (Studies in Music (University of Rochester Press) #110)

Beethoven permeates American culture. His image appears on countless busts and coffee mugs; his music is heard in movie scores, TV soundtracks, commercials, and pop songs; he is Schroeder's god in Peanuts and Chuck Berry's freaked-out parent in "Roll over Beethoven." In this book, Michael Broyles se... Read More about Beethoven in America

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes towa... Read More about Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and ... Read More about Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices

More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all p... Read More about Bach Perspectives, Volume 5: Bach in America