John Tasker Howard

{{other people||John Howard (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox person |name=John Tasker Howard |birth_date={{Birth date|1890|11|30}} |birth_place = Brooklyn, New York<ref name="NYT_obituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/21/john-tasker-howard-73-dies.html|title=John Tasker Howard, 73, Dies|date=November 21, 1964|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> |death_date={{Death date and age|1964|11|20|1890|11|30}} |death_place=West Orange, New Jersey<ref name="NYT_obituary" /> |occupation=Music historian |known_for=''Our American Music'' (1931) <br />''Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour'' (1934) |spouse=Ruth Hunter<ref name="NYT_obituary" /> }} '''John Tasker Howard''' (November 30, 1890 – November 20, 1964) was an early American music historian, radio host, writer, lecturer, and composer. His ''Our American Music'', published in 1931, was an early general history of music in the United States.<ref>Crawford, Robert, writing in Chase, xii</ref>

Howard was the curator in the Music Division of the New York Public Library from 1940 to 1956.

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==References== * {{cite book |author = Chase, Gilbert |author-link = Chase, Gilbert |isbn = 0-252-00454-X |publisher = University of Illinois Press |title = America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present |year = 2000 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/americasmusicfro0000chas }}

==External links== *{{cite journal|title=John Tasker Howard|jstor=893691|last=Bellows|first=George Kent|journal=Notes|volume=14|number=4|date=September 1957|pages=504–506}} {{subscription required}}. Bibliography of Howard, published in 1957 *{{cite web|last=Constantine|first=Thea|url=http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/MUSHOWA.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708200551/http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/MUSHOWA.pdf|title=John Tasker Howard papers, 1869–1995|publisher=New York Public Library|date=April 2004|archivedate=July 8, 2007}} Papers at the New York Public Library *{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;view=text;rgn=main;didno=US-PPiU-camfhc201101|title=Foster Hall Collection|last=Miller Haines|first=Kathryn|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|date=May 2012}} Collection of correspondences to and from Howard, Foster Hall Collection, University of Pittsburgh. Section: C869 *{{Internet Archive author |sname=John Tasker Howard |sopt=t}}

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