John Tasker Howard
John Tasker Howard | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 30, 1890 |
| Died | November 20, 1964 (aged 73) |
| Occupation | Music historian |
| Known for | Our American Music (1931) Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour (1934) |
| Spouse | Ruth Hunter[1] |
John Tasker Howard (November 30, 1890 – November 20, 1964) was an early American music historian, radio host, writer, lecturer, and composer. His Our American Music, published in 1931, was an early general history of music in the United States.[2]
Howard was the curator in the Music Division of the New York Public Library from 1940 to 1956.
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 "John Tasker Howard, 73, Dies". The New York Times. November 21, 1964.
- ↑ Crawford, Robert, writing in Chase, xii
References
[edit]- Chase, Gilbert (2000). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00454-X.
External links
[edit]- Bellows, George Kent (September 1957). "John Tasker Howard". Notes. 14 (4): 504–506. JSTOR 893691. (subscription required). Bibliography of Howard, published in 1957
- Constantine, Thea (April 2004). "John Tasker Howard papers, 1869–1995" (PDF). New York Public Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2007. Papers at the New York Public Library
- Miller Haines, Kathryn (May 2012). "Foster Hall Collection". University of Pittsburgh. Collection of correspondences to and from Howard, Foster Hall Collection, University of Pittsburgh. Section: C869
- Works by or about John Tasker Howard at the Internet Archive
Categories:
- 1890 births
- 1964 deaths
- 20th-century American male composers
- American music historians
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century American historians
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Musicians from Brooklyn
- New York Public Library people
- 20th-century American male writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Historians from New York (state)
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs