Literature of American Music III, 1983-1992 is the second supplement to the original Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections. Taken together, the three volumes provide a comprehensive inventory of the 5,100 books representing the core literature on American music. This volume cites and critically annotates monographs on American music published from 1983 to 1992, but does not include literature in folk music collections. More than 1,300 entries cover all aspects of American music, including folk, blues, jazz, rock, music of major cities, festivals, the music industry, instruments, music education, and music for TV and film. Entries are arranged according to Library of Congress classification numbers, which allows librarians to check their own holdings. Each citation provides full imprint data, ISBN, facts about earlier editions, series notes, references to reviews in standard media, descriptions of favorable and unfavorable features, and special notes of reference elements such as indexes and bibliographies. Includes title and subject indexes. Author indexing is included in the Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992.
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Marco's Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections (LOAM) is the third volume in an annotated bibliography of writings on American music of all genres. The first two volumes, compiled in 1977 and 1988 by David Horn, listed books on American composers, performers, and musical styles published through 1982; this one brings the bibliography up to date through December 1992. Though its scope is necessarily somewhat limited?popular music and recording guides are covered selectively and reprints are excluded entirely?librarians and other interested readers will find a wealth of invaluable information within its pages. Each entry is organized according to AACRII style, which will please both librarians and library users accustomed to the format of catalog cards. In addition, ISBN and LC classification numbers are cited for each entry, and there are also references, where applicable, to reviews in the standard sources. Marco's excellent annotations reflect a truly impressive knowledge of his subject. The book itself is organized by LC class, which may throw some readers but will be helpful to the patron who wishes to browse the stacks with Marco's book in hand. It is less easy to see why he chose to include and alphabetize by initial articles in the title index?an approach that is certain to create more difficulty than it prevents. An excellent subject index and a joint-author index rounds out the work. This bibliography is a remarkable achievement; it is difficult to imagine a music research collection that can afford to be without it. The Checklist of Writings on American Music is a cumulative single-author index to all three volumes of LOAM and should be considered an essential supplement.?Rick Anderson, Penacook,
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Marco provides useful critical commentary, additional background information where necessary to place titles in context with other works, and citations to selected reviews. (Choice )
The particular strength of this volume, as well as the complete series, is annotated reviews of published material covering the entire tapestry of America's music. Folk, jazz, blues and popular music scholarship are fully documented. (Come-All-Ye )
This book is a continuation of David Horn's two inventories of significant works on music by Americans...and has done an excellent job of bringing Horn's original work into the 1990s. (Arba )
The particular strength of this volume, as well as the complete series, is annotated reviews of published material covering the entire tapestry of America's music. Folk, jazz, blues and popular music scholarship are fully documented. (Come-All-Ye )
This book is a continuation of David Horn's two inventories of significant works on music by Americans...and has done an excellent job of bringing Horn's original work into the 1990s. (Arba )
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