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Music in the Westward Expansion - Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier (Paperback)
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Music in the Westward Expansion - Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier (Paperback)
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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.
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