New England Music: The Public Sphere, 1600-1900 (1996)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1996. 

Music as performed in public settings in the region during the first three hundred years of its history. Fourteen essays on social dance, schools, theatrical music, fraternal and military music, ballads, singing schools, psalmody, bands, and folk instruments. Bibliography, music examples, and illustrations. 208 pp. Click here to view Table of Contents.