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[3] As a companion to his three two-album volumes from the original Anthology of American Folk Music categorized by Ballads, Social Music, and Songs, Smith chose "Labor Songs" as this volume's organizing principle. Smith included material released as late as 1940, with a selection of union songs making their first appearances for an Anthology set.
The Overstory challenges traditional notions of storytelling by giving equal importance to the lives of trees and forests. Powers employs a narrative structure that reflects the layered complexity of forest ecosystems, with the human stories forming the "understory" and the overarching narrative of trees and forests representing the "overstory ...
Robert Mirabal renowned for his mastery of the Native American flute and for blending traditional Native American music. Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious, and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low ...
MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a 41-volume series of critical editions of American music, representing the full range of genres and idioms that have contributed to American musical culture. [1] It was established by the American Musicological Society in 1988 [2] and is hosted by the University of Michigan at its American Music ...
Finding a particular piece of music within one of these multi-volume sets can often be difficult, as many of the series do not have general indices. For pieces within a composer's complete works set, researchers often consult the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Second Edition, 2001), either online or in its printed version ...
Oral History of American Music's collection consists primarily of audio and video interviews which are digitized and transcribed. The collection is split into six major components in addition to its acquired materials: Major Figures in American Music: audio and video interviews with about 1,000 composers, performers, and other significant musicians
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Eric Weisbard, the co-editor of Spin magazine's Alternative Record Guide and an organizer of the Experience Music Project conferences, wrote that, just as albums are "structures of order, turning songs, an inherently ersatz form, into statements", Smith's book "albums the album, compiling the 'statement' works that prevailed in jazz, folk, and two generations of rock into a single package". [4]