# John Tasker Howard

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{{short description|American historian}}

{{other people||John Howard (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox person
|name=John Tasker Howard
|birth_date={{Birth date|1890|11|30}}
|birth_place   = [Brooklyn](/source/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](/source/West_Orange%2C_New_Jersey)<ref name="NYT_obituary" />
|occupation=Music historian
|known_for=''Our American Music'' (1931) <br />''[Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour](/source/Stephen_Foster%3A_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](/source/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](/source/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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