John Tasker Howard

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John Tasker Howard was an early American music historian and writer. His Our American Music was an early general history of music in the United States, published in 1931.[1]

He was also the curator of the New York Public Library from 1940 to 1956.

[edit] Reference

  • Chase, Gilbert (2000). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00454-X. 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Crawford, Robert, writing in Chase, xii

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