Forging America : New Lands and High Culture

Forging America : New Lands and High Culture

Forging America : New Lands and High Culture

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Book Description
Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation, this book shows how the various "new" portions of the country--the Northeastern wilderness, the West, and later the South and Midwest--were assimilated into the national and intellectual consciousness of the young nation. Specifically, the author examines the ways in which the arts helped achieve this assimilation, primarily through music and painting, but also through literature and architecture. The search for "American-ness" in the arts, for what it meant to be an American painter, composer, or writer, occupied artists for the entire 19th century and for the first part of the 20th.

About the Author
DAVID P. DeVENNEY is Associate Professor of Music and director of choral activities at West Chester University and is music director of the Reading Choral Society, one of America's oldest performing ensembles. He has authored several books, including Varied Carols: A Survey of American Choral Music (Greenwood, 1999).

Forging America : New Lands and High Culture,David P. DeVenney,Praeger Publishers,0275980553,19th century,American - General,Art,Arts, American,Civilization,General,Music,United States,Music / General

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