Into the Cultural Mainstream: The Growth of American Music Scholarship

Abstract

is one faced by an increasing number of scholars for whom notes on a printed page or sounds recorded from various oral traditions are important resources. The songs we sing, the symphonies and operas we pay to hear, the popular music we listen to on radio and watch on MTV, and the pronouncements of critics are now being analyzed by practitioners of social and cultural history, much in the same way that these writers have considered our theater, sports and games, and fashion and style as important sources for learning about culture. Generations of historians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, attuned neither to the complexities of musical structure nor to the importance of music as a key to understanding American culture, assigned

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