More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country.

Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers Bach's early impact in Boston while Mary J. Greer offers a counterpoint in her study of Bach's reception in New York. Hans-Joachim Schulze's essay links the American descendants of August Reinhold Bach to the composer. Christoph Wolff also focuses on Bach's descendants in America, particularly Friederica Sophia Bach, the daughter of Bach's eldest son. Peter Wollny evaluates manuscripts not included in Gerhard Herz's study of Bach Sources in America. The volume concludes with Carol K. Baron's comparison of Bach with Charles Ives while Stephen A. Crist measures Bach's influence on the jazz icon Dave Brubeck.

| Cover Title page Copyright CONTENTS Preface Editor's Preface Abbreviations Bach Comes to America BY BARBARA OWEN Doing Missionary Work: Dwight's Journal of Music and the American Bach Awakening BY MATTHEW DIRST Haupt's Boys: Lobbying for Bach in Nineteenth-Century Boston BY MICHAEL BROYLES "The Public . . . Would Probably Prefer Something that Appeals Less to the Brain and More to the Senses": The Reception of Bach's Music in New York City, 1855–1900 BY MARY J. GREER "A Lineal Descendantof the Great Musician, John Sebastian Bach"?: Bach Descendants in the United States and the Problem of Family Oral Traditon BY HANS-JOACHIM SCHULZE Descendants of Wilhelm Friedeman Bach in the United States BY CHRISTOPH WOLFF On Miscellaneous American Bach Sources BY PETER WOLLNY "Father Knew (and Filled Me Up with) Bach": Bach and Ives-Affities in Lines and Spaces BY CAROL K. BARON The Role and Meaning of the Bach Chorale in the Music of Dave Brubeck BY STEPHEN A. CRIST Contributors General Index Index of Bach's Compositions |Stephen A. Crist is a professor of music history at Emory University. He is the coeditor of Historical Musicology.