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A ‘californio’ plays his guitar amid California’s rugged hills, conjuring the songs and stories that shaped the region’s musical landscape. (Image by ChatGPT)

Pacific voices: how California’s music shaped an evolving American West

Mark Gresham · September 17, 2025
Stephen Foster (from an historical photograph)

Stephen Foster and the music of a Westward-bound America

Mark Gresham · September 10, 2025
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, detail from a photo by Matthew Brady, made sometime in the late 1850s–early 1860s (public domain)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: an American virtuoso who navigated a divided nation

Mark Gresham · September 3, 2025
An engraving titled "A View of New Orleans", created in 1803 by John L. Boqueta de Woiseri, offers a detailed perspective of the city as it appeared at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. The banner reads: "Under My Wings Every Thing Prospers."

New Orleans: How the Louisiana Purchase brought a musical capital into an expanding America

Mark Gresham · August 27, 2025
Detail from the famous portrait of Benjamin_Franklin by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis, ca.1785.

Benjamin Franklin’s musical innovations and the soundscape of a new American nation

Mark Gresham · August 20, 2025
Detail from the official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale (1800)

Jefferson’s violins: a legacy of musical enlightenment in early America

Mark Gresham · August 13, 2025
Lowell Mason, 19th-century American composer and music educator. (Portrait generated by OpenAI’s DALL·E based on a historical reference image.)

Lowell Mason: Father of American music education

Mark Gresham · August 6, 2025
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1754. (moravian.org)

The Moravian Legacy: Musical Roots in Bethlehem and Winston-Salem

Mark Gresham · July 30, 2025
William Billings (1746 –1800), based on an historical portrait. (Chat GPT 4o AI)

William Billings: America’s first composer

Mark Gresham · July 23, 2025
Detail from 'The Spirit of 1776' by Archibald Willard, c. 1875

Music in America, 1776: The Sound of Revolution

Mark Gresham · July 16, 2025
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