the year of american music

archives

African American spirituals: preserving the heritage, from the Johnson Brothers to today

The rise of the American spiritual: from fields to concert halls

Forging an American symphony: the rise of orchestras after the Civil War

Boston Classicists: the Second New England School

A nation divided: Music in the Anerican Civil War

The music and poetry of Sidney Lanier: a Southern voice in Post-Civil War America

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

Stephen Foster and the music of a Westward-bound America

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

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