American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909 (American Popular Music & Its Business)

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally music in the era of monopoly, including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley. Contents......Page 6 Part One: 1790 to 1860......Page 8 Philadelphia, New York, and Boston......Page 10 Copyright......Page 32 Changing Technology......Page 41 3. Sheet Music Publishing in Pre–Civil War America......Page 54 Philadelphia......Page 56 New York......Page 64 The Nineteenth-Century Social and Stage Dance......Page 99 European Music Publishers in New York......Page 102 Boston......Page 104 The South......Page 128 Frontier and Western Music Publishers......Page 134 The Board of Music Trade......Page 144 The Other Music-Publishing Business......Page 150 In Search of a National Popular Music......Page 153 Yankee Doodle on the Stage......Page 156 Early Growth of the Frontier Theater......Page 161 The Black American Discovered......Page 163 The American Stage Black and His Music......Page 168 The American Circus—Incubator of the Minstrel Show......Page 173 The Arrival of the Minstrel Show......Page 177 5. The Music of God's Americans 1800–1860......Page 186 Worship Under the Open Skies......Page 187 The Shape-Note Business......Page 197 The First Great Urban Evangelists......Page 202 The Lunch-Hour Revival Movement......Page 206 The American Sunday School Movement......Page 208 Lowell Mason and Popular Religious Music......Page 210 6. The Music of Black Americans 1800–1860......Page 219 Popular Music and Black Americans......Page 221 The Emergence of the Black Spiritual......Page 227 Part Two: 1861 to 1909......Page 230 Song Publishing in the Confederacy......Page 232 Song Publishing in the North......Page 235 Some Civil War Songs and Their Writers......Page 246 The Singing Evangelists......Page 254 The Shape-Note Business......Page 272 The Spirituals......Page 276 Minstrels and the Millionaires of Minstrelsy......Page 280 The First Great Black Songwriters......Page 283 Cakewalks and Coon Songs......Page 297 Classic Ragtime, Its First Rise and Fall......Page 304 Popular Music on the Post–Civil War Stage......Page 310 Vaudeville and Popular Music......Page 344 11. Popular Music in the Age of Gigantism 1866–1909......Page 353 Music Publishing in the Midwest......Page 358 Copyright and the Music Business......Page 364 Changing Technology and Distribution......Page 368 Mr. Edison's Wonderful Talking Machine......Page 370 The Board of Music Trade......Page 375 The Pianola and the Victrola......Page 387 The Pursuit of Copyright Revision......Page 399 Tin Pan Alley......Page 408 Bibliography......Page 428 A......Page 454 B......Page 455 C......Page 459 D......Page 461 E......Page 463 F......Page 464 G......Page 465 H......Page 466 I......Page 468 J......Page 469 K......Page 470 L......Page 471 M......Page 472 N......Page 476 O......Page 477 P......Page 478 R......Page 480 S......Page 481 T......Page 484 V......Page 486 W......Page 487 Z......Page 489 This three-volume work tells the complete story of American popular songs, their authors, and the business they set in motion. Volume one explores the inception of the music publishing business in Elizabethan England and traces music activity in England until 1790, examining popular balladry, copyright problems, the start of music printing, religious music, professional music makers, musical theater, eighteenth-century music, and such leading musical figures as Purcell, Handel, and Haydn. Also discussed are the beginnings of music in the United States, including musical theater, black music, and the Great Awakening and its relationship to music publishing [Publisher description] This is the second of three volumes designed, in the author's words, to tell 'the story of America's popular songs, the people who wrote them, and the business they created and sustained'