The Cambridge History of American Music

In this context America is taken to be the mainland area of the USA, but that narrow definition is compensated by the breadth of coverage which includes music written or performed there, and not only music by Americans. Even so, there is little about European composers of established reputation who made their homes in the USA during the 1930s and later, like Bartok, Hindemith, Schoenberg and Stravinsky and those refugees who contributed so much to Hollywood like Korngold, Rózsa and Tiomkin. In fact the contributors to this history devote more of their space to popular music than to “art music”...