John Tasker Howard

{{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, New York{{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}}

|death_date={{Death date and age|1964|11|20|1890|11|30}}

|death_place=West Orange, New Jersey

|occupation=Music historian

|known_for=Our American Music (1931)
Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour (1934)

|spouse=Ruth Hunter

}}

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.Crawford, Robert, writing in Chase, xii

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

}}