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Specialized genres are examined as well, in a chapter that discusses prominent artists and composers in musical theater, jazz, popular Christian music, and classical music.

Among other topics, the book looks at the growth of urban-based rap and other popular music in the context of the rise of music television.

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Across the larger cultural backdrop, the growth of music publishing led to a flourishing of urban concert music, while folk music became indelibly linked with American populism.

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Chapters present accessible narratives on music and its cultural resonations, music theory and technique is broken down for the lay reader, and each volume presents a chapter of alphabetically arranged entries on significant people and terms.

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This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War.

Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I

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As the country continued to develop a musical style apart from Europe, its church and religious music and opera took on new forms. This volume presents the composers, musicians, songwriters, instruments and musical forms that uniquely identify the Gilded Age.

Chapters include: Concerts and Symphony orchestras;

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In the World War II era, big bands and swing music reached the heights of popularity with soldiers as well as friends and loved ones back home.