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America's Musical Life: A History. (Historical Topics).
America's Musical Life: A History. By Richard Crawford. New York: Norton, 2001. [xv, 976 p. ISBN 0-393-04810-1. $45.]
The appearance of an ambitious history of American music by a scholar as distinguished as Richard Crawford is an eagerly anticipated event. America's Musical Life: A History does not disappoint. It represents a major contribution to a growing field, and I cannot conceive of anyone with an interest in the subject who would not profit greatly from reading it: from amateur enthusiasts to students of American culture, from professional performers to other senior scholars of American music.
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