Sweet Songs for Gentle Americans

by Nicholas E. Tawa

Popular parlor songs were the main form of secular musical entertainment in the early years of the United States. They were heard regularly in the homes of our principal statesmen, authors, intellectuals, professionals, and businessmen. Laborers and slaves also sang them. They were the principal fare of concert and stage performances, and were freely interpolated into Italian operas, Shakespearean plays, lyceum lectures, and church services. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879721308
• ISBN13: 9780879721305
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"