Includes 132 tune books and hymnals, correspondence, and research and teaching materials on American music, folklore, and psalmody. Materials related to the early California missions, from the Sister ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in ... so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds ...

Not only did new British music become America's hottest import, but it contributed to an increase in record sales during the early part of 1983. Part of the British two-tone ska revival of the ...