# Gilbert Chase

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American historian

**Gilbert Chase** (4 September 1906, [Havana](/source/Havana), [Cuba](/source/Cuba) – 22 February 1992, [Chapel Hill, North Carolina](/source/Chapel_Hill%2C_North_Carolina)[1]) was an American music historian, critic and author, and a "seminal figure in the field of [musicology](/source/Musicology) and [ethnomusicology](/source/Ethnomusicology)." He was the maternal cousin of the writer and diarist [Anaïs Nin](/source/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin).

His *America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present* was the first major work to examine the [music of the entire United States](/source/Music_of_the_United_States) and argue that folk traditions were 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.[2] He also "was the first to treat the music of [Charles Ives](/source/Charles_Ives) and [Carl Ruggles](/source/Carl_Ruggles) as important additions to the 20th-century repertory".[3] Along with [Robert Stevenson](/source/Robert_Stevenson_(musicologist)), he was among the first American scholars to study the [music of the Americas](/source/Music_of_the_Americas), and his *The Music of Spain* and *A Guide to the Music of Latin America* were major works in the study of [Spanish](/source/Music_of_Spain) and [Latin American music](/source/Latin_American_music).[4] *The Music of Spain* remains a seminal and much-used text.[3]

Chase served as the [cultural attaché](/source/Cultural_attach%C3%A9) in [Lima](/source/Lima) (1950–53), [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires) (1953–55) and [Brussels](/source/Brussels) (1960–63).

Chase taught at [Tulane University](/source/Tulane_University),[4] [University of Texas](/source/University_of_Texas), and the [University of Oklahoma](/source/University_of_Oklahoma).[3] After retiring in 1979, he moved to [Chapel Hill, North Carolina](/source/Chapel_Hill%2C_North_Carolina), and died there, of [pneumonia](/source/Pneumonia), in 1992.[3]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [The Gilbert Chase Papers](http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/muschase.pdf)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Crawford, pg. x

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NYT_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NYT_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NYT_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-NYT_3-3) [New York Times](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6D8133AF934A15751C0A964958260)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Tulane_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Tulane_4-1) ["Tulane University"](http://www.tulane.edu/~jleonweb/chase.htm). Retrieved 2008-05-15.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

## References

- [Crawford, Richard](/source/Richard_Crawford_(music_historian)) (2001). [*America's Musical Life: A History*](https://archive.org/details/americasmusicall0000craw). W. W. Norton & Company. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-393-04810-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-04810-1).

## External links

- Works by or about [Gilbert Chase](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Gilbert_Chase) at [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource)

- [The Gilbert Chase papers](http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20298) in the [Music Division](http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/music-division) of [The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts](http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa).

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