Music in American Society

This book is the literary legacy of a national music festival in St. Louis, organized to identify as clearly as possible the specifically native character of music originating in the United States of America. The festival-the Bicentennial Horizons of American Music and the Performing Arts (B.H.A.M.)-sponsored more than 250 performances and workshops between Flag Day and Independence Day 1976. It was the only event of the Bicentennial celebration to address itself to a survey and evaluation of the musical development of this country.

George McCue

1 Americanism in Music: A Composer's View, 2 Music with an American Accent, 3 Social and Moral Music: The Hymn, 4 Charles Ives's Optimism: or, The Program's Progress, 5 The Other Side of Black Music, 6 The Music of American Indians, 7 American Folksong: Some Comments on the History Collection and Archiving, 8 Popular Music: The Sounds of the Many, 9 Jazz as an Urban Music, 10 The Exhilarating Adventure of New Music in the U.S.A. since 1950, 11 American Musical Theater, 12 Musical Corporations in America.