418 illustrations, 142 musical examples ; 9374 entries ; Editorial Board page, Preface, About the Dictionary, Note on the Use of the Dictionary, Abbreviations lists (General, Bibliographical, Discographical, Library Sigla), List of Contributors, Index
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, forthcoming from the 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, forthcoming).
Authoritative and informative ... [a] marvellous combination of
editing and erudition, so splendidly produced and such a pleasure
to use, may be one of the last of its kind.
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