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Music in the Southwest, 1825-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swan, Howard, 1906-1995
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, 1952.
Series:Huntington Library publications.
Subjects:
Music > California > History and criticism.
Church music > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Music.
California.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Robert Glass Cleland
  • Foreword
  • Zion's first hymnody
  • Song and dance in Deseret
  • Mormon vs. gentile : a musical chronicle
  • Mormon music : the development of leadership
  • Music in the mining camps : Virginia City and Tombstone
  • The music of mission, rancho, and pueblo
  • Music in the cow counties
  • Town in a garden
  • Boom and expansion
  • The birth of professional music
  • The busy "bee"
  • The second boom
  • Prosperity and Depression
  • Southern California at mid-century : a musical enigma.