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The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Extensive and detailed coverage of music and music-making in the United States, including both Americans and selected foreign musicians whose careers have had an impact on music in America, with special attention to Canadian and Latin American figures, as well as Americans working abroad provides a comprehensive view of the field.
Contains more than 9300 entries, including 4,800 new articles as well as revised articles and bibliographies from the 1986 edition and Grove Music Online
447 images and 137 music examples provide dynamic context to research.

New to this Edition:

4,835 new articles
400 new images
Expanded content, particularly in the areas of African American music, Asian American music, choral music, cities and regions, concert music, film music, Hawaiian music, Latino music, Native American music, nineteenth-century music, music and dance, music education, music librarians and libraries, musical theater, opera, popular music, sacred music, and music technology
New articles on developing areas of scholarship, including disability, ecomusicology, environmental music, sound studies, and soundscapes.

The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Description

The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition is the largest, most comprehensive reference publication on American Music. Twenty-five years ago, the four volumes of the first edition of the dictionary initiated a great expansion in American music scholarship. This second edition reflects the growth in scholarship the first edition initiated. At eight volumes, it provides greatly expanded coverage, particularly in the areas of popular music, cities and regions, musical theater, opera, concert music, and music technology, as well as the musical traditions of many ethnic and cultural groups.

The articles of the dictionary range from small definitions of dance styles and musical terms to mid-length biographies of important performers, composers and music patrons, to longer examinations of larger subjects such as the history of jazz, musical instruments, music education in the United States, and the American history of the orchestra.

The dictionary's articles are supplemented by over 400 images and 140 musical examples and other materials. An abbreviations list, list of contributors, and tips on the use of the dictionary make navigation easy. With well-researched, informative articles by 1500 authors, including most of the top scholars in the field, The Grove Dictionary of American Music will be accessible to scholars, academic specialists, and the general public.

The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Author Information

Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance, as well as a faculty associate of the university's American Culture Program. He has served as review editor and assistant editor of American Music, the journal of the Society for American Music. His book Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, which was awarded the Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award by the Society for American Music, was published by University of California Press in 2008. He is co-editor of Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries (University of California Press) and author of numerous articles, including "Shooting the Keys: Musical Horseplay and High Culture" in The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, ed. Jane F. Fulcher (Oxford University Press).

Contributors:

Project editor: Mark Clague, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance

Senior Editorial Board:
E. Douglas Bomberger, Elizabethtown College
Carolyn Bryant, Independent Scholar
Mark Clague, University of Michigan
Kevin Fellezs, University of California, Merced
Daniel Goldmark, Case Western Reserve University
Jere Humphreys, Arizona State University
Tammy L. Kernodle, Miami University
Beth E. Levy, University of California, Davis
Alejandro L. Madrid, University of Illinois at Chicago
Travis D. Stimeling, TK
Jacqueline Warwick, Dalhousie University

24 Contributing Editors

1 Assistant Contributing Editor

An advisory board of 34 scholars, including:
Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago and member of the Grove Music Editorial Board
Portia K. Maultsby, Indiana University
Carol J. Oja, Harvard University
Deane Root, University of Pittsburgh and Editor in Chief of Grove Music
Timothy D. Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Tick, Northeastern University

The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Reviews and Awards

2013 Prose Award for Best Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Best Reference 2013, Library Journal
Best Reference 2014, Library Journal

"[A] marvelous combination of editing and erudition, so splendidly produced and such a pleasure to use, may be one of the last of its kind." --Stephen Brown, The Times Literary Supplement

"Essential for research institutions with a music program." --Library Journal, 'Best Reference 2013'

"...represents the ongoing commitment of a massive community to telling the stories of American music with clarity, precision, and depth and demonstrates the continuing strength of our field." --American Music Review

"[W]e were deeply impressed both by the quality and ambition of the eight-volume, 5.4 million-word encyclopedia and by the 'gargantuan' task...with which the reviewers had been charged...Few reviewers could resist praising AmeriGrove II's scope or remarking upon its size...AmeriGrove II (and I) is a capacious, engaging, impossible text that rewards many sorts of reading--whether by human or machine, online or paper."--Journal of the Society for American Music

The Grove Dictionary of American Music

8-Volume Set

Second Edition

Editor-in-chief: Charles Hiroshi Garrett

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