Education
Hamm graduated from the University of Virginia in 1947 where he was a member of the Virginia Glee Club.
(A panoramic study of American music details the historica...)
A panoramic study of American music details the historical events, personalities, and cultural influences that have played a significant role in the development of the various types of music in the United States.
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(This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist C...)
This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist Charles Hamm focuses on the context of popular music and its interrelationships with other styles and genres, including classical music, the meaning of popular music for audiences, and the institutional appropriation of this music for hegemonic purposes. Specific topics include the use of popular song to rouse anti-slavery sentiment in mid-nineteenth-century America, the reception of such African-American styles and genres as rock 'n' roll and soul music by the black population of South Africa, the question of genre in the early songs of Irving Berlin, the attempts by the governments of South Africa and China to impose specific bodies of music on their populations, and the impact of modernist modes of thought on writing about popular music.
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Hamm graduated from the University of Virginia in 1947 where he was a member of the Virginia Glee Club.
He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times that "Mr. Hamm was one of the first scholars to study the history of American popular music with musicological rigor and sensitivity to complex racial and ethnic dynamics, and both oral and written traditions.
He traced popular’s history not just to its full recent flowering in the 1950s or to the 19th century and Stephen Foster, but also to the colonial-era compositions that created the context for all that followed.".
(This volume of essays by the distinguished musicologist C...)
(A panoramic study of American music details the historica...)