Music and Theater in Minnesota History
Music and Theater in Minnesota History
John K. Sherman
Edited by WILLIAM VAN O’CONNOR
Copyright Date: 1958
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 68
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Music and Theater in Minnesota History
Book Description:

In this concise overview of Minnesota music and theater, John K. Sherman has compiled a generous collection of information pertaining to notable personalities of the state’s performance culture and their works. Music and Theater in Minnesota History is also available in A History of the Arts in Minnesota, edited by William Van O’Connor, and published by the University of Minnesota Press.

eISBN: 978-1-4529-3588-1
Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-2)
  2. MUSIC AND THEATER IN MINNESOTA HISTORY
    MUSIC AND THEATER IN MINNESOTA HISTORY (pp. 3-64)
    John K. Sherman

    Probably music has existed in what is now minnesota for almost as long as the area has been populated, with its first expression coming from human throats in some kind of rhythmic or heightened speech. The primeval forests and hills must have echoed, at times, to the chants of the mound builders or those earlier aborigines who lived in the dim aeons of Minnesota's antiquity. But we can only speculate on what that primitive music sounded like on the basis of the relatively recent songs of the Sioux and Chippewa, which might well be the sophisticated end-product of a development...

  3. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 65-65)
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