Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820. By Nicholas Michael Butler. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Abstract

American ethnic musics from ethnomusicological or cultural studies perspectives extensive material for thought-provoking discussions of musical stereotypes and their social and historical impact. Furthermore, this book provides a foundation for future studies of Indianism in music, including the roles that Native artists have played in either overturning the stereotypes or further manipulating them in popular, film, and art music.