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Understanding History

International Review of History Education 4

Edited by Ros Ashby, Professor Peter Gordon, Peter Lee

What sense do children and young people make of history? How do they cope with competing historical accounts in textbooks? How do they think historical…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-7130-0245-4 (Routledge)

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Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950

Edited by Michael Saffle

The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2145-3 (Routledge)

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Perspectives on American Music since 1950

Edited by James R. Heintze

As the century comes to a close, composition of music in the United States has reached little consensus in terms of style, techniques, or "schools."…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2144-6 (Routledge)

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Music of the New American Nation

Sacred Music from 1780 to 1820

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2209-2 (Routledge)

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What the Music Said

Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

By Mark Anthony Neal

What the Music Said is a book about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92072-8 (Routledge)

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Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

By Michael Saffle

This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2125-5 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Twentieth Century Music and the Sociology of Modern Culture
By Eduardo de la Fuente
To be published January 15th 2009

The Sound Studies Reader
Edited by Jonathan Sterne
To be published December 1st 2009

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