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==Education and scholarship== {{further|Music education in the United States|Music schools in the United States}} [[File:SimonandGarfunkel.jpg|thumb|left|Garfunkel, left, with [[Paul Simon]], right, performing outside at a concert in [[Dublin]] as [[Simon & Garfunkel]]. The lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel's songs are often treated as poetry, and their storytelling aspects are sometimes studied in literature classes.]] Music is an important part of [[education in the United States]], and is a part of most or all school systems in the country. Music education is generally mandatory in public elementary schools, and is an elective in later years.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=March 25, 2006 |title=2005β2006 State Arts Education Policy Database|url=http://www.aep-arts.org/policysearch/searchengine/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208014443/http://aep-arts.org/policysearch/searchengine/|archive-date=December 8, 2006|work=Arts Education Partnership}}</ref> The scholarly study of music in the United States includes work relating music to social class, racial, ethnic and religious identity, gender and sexuality, as well as studies of music history, musicology, and other topics. The academic study of American music can be traced back to the late 19th century, when researchers like [[Alice Fletcher]] and [[Francis La Flesche]] studied the music of the [[Omaha (tribe)|Omaha peoples]], working for the [[Bureau of American Ethnology]] and the [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology]]. In the 1890s and into the early 20th century, musicological recordings were made among indigenous, Hispanic, African-American and Anglo-American peoples of the United States. Many worked for the [[Library of Congress]], first under the leadership of [[Oscar Sonneck]], chief of the Library's Music Divisions.<ref name="Blum">Blum, Stephen, "Sources, Scholarship and Historiography" in the ''Garland Encyclopedia of World Music''.</ref> These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the [[Archive of American Folk Song]], and [[John Lomax|John]] and [[Alan Lomax]]; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century [[roots revival]] of American folk culture.<ref>Unterberger, Richie with Tony Seeger, "Filling the Map With Music" in the ''Rough Guide to World Music'', p. 531β535.</ref> [[File:Robert_Mirabal.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Robert Mirabal]] renowned for his mastery of the Native American flute and for blending traditional Native American music.]] Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious, and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low-class and of little artistic or social worth. American music history was compared to the much longer historical record of European nations, and was found wanting, leading writers like the composer [[Arthur Farwell]] to ponder what sorts of musical traditions might arise from American culture, in his 1915 ''Music in America''. In 1930, [[John Tasker Howard]]'s ''Our American Music'' became a standard analysis, focusing on largely on concert music composed in the United States.<ref name="Crawford">Crawford, p. x.</ref> Since the analysis of musicologist [[Charles Seeger]] in the mid-20th century, American music history has often been described as intimately related to perceptions of race and ancestry. Under this view, the diverse racial and ethnic background of the United States has both promoted a sense of musical separation between the races, while still fostering constant acculturation, as elements of European, African, and indigenous musics have shifted between fields.<ref name="Blum"/> [[Gilbert Chase]]'s ''America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present'', was the first major work to examine the music of the entire United States, and recognize folk traditions as more culturally significant than music for the concert hall. Chase's analysis of a diverse American musical identity has remained the dominant view among the academic establishment.<ref name="Crawford"/> Until the 1960s and 1970s, however, most musical scholars in the United States continued to study European music, limiting themselves only to certain fields of American music, especially European-derived classical and operatic styles, and sometimes African American jazz. More modern musicologists and ethnomusicologists have studied subjects ranging from the national musical identity to the individual styles and techniques of specific communities in a particular time of American history.<ref name="Blum"/> Prominent recent studies of American music include [[Charles Hamm]]'s ''Music in the New World'' from 1983 and [[Richard Crawford (music historian)|Richard Crawford]]'s ''America's Musical Life'' from 2001.<ref>Crawford, p. xβxi.</ref>
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