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'Dvorak in America' articles never mention how Gottschalk was hard at work integrating African American folk music several decades earlier. There wasn't much a

• jan_Inkepa 4y ago
  Gottachalk is a hoot to play also. One of the best concerts I went to involved an impenetrable and lengthy Avant Garde work by which time it was over I, in spite of my general openness, wanted to leave, but the next piece was a Gottschalk piece with lots of well-known American melodies which was wonderfully comprehensible in comparison. In other circumstances I might have dismissed it but in this particular context it was like water to someone dying of dehydration.
• prvc 4y ago
  Why should they mention this?
  • bjornlouser 4y ago
    From the article: "In traveling to America, Dvořák was on a mission to create an “American music,” to find and elevate the country’s folk tradition, even the sound of its daily life. What immediately captured his imagination was African American music, slave songs, and spirituals." Perhaps they should mention Gottschalk simply to explain that no-one was actually confused about how to elevate the folk tradition in America...