Richard Crawford (music historian)
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Richard Crawford is an American music historian, formerly a professor of music at the University of Michigan.[1] His American Musical Landscape is one of the seminal works of American music history,[2] published in 2001. He has published a number of other books, and edited a series of books on American music. He is an honorary member and past president of the American Musicological Society,[3] one of the founding members of the Society for American Music,[4] and is the founder and former editor-in-chief of MUSA (Music of the United States of America).[5]