Music in the Westward Expansion: Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers. This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including Northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, singing farmers, musical miners, and preaching songsters.

ISBN:	9781476685229
Publisher:	McFarland
Imprint:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published date:	30 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	780.97809034
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220510
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 213
Weight:	408g
Height:	254mm
Width:	178mm
Spine width:	15mm

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