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{{short description|American historian}}

'''Gilbert Chase''' (4 September 1906, [[Havana]], [[Cuba]] – 22 February 1992, [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]<ref>[http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/muschase.pdf The Gilbert Chase Papers]</ref>) was an American music historian, critic and author, and a "seminal figure in the field of [[musicology]] and [[ethnomusicology]]." He was the maternal cousin of the writer and diarist [[Anais Nin]].

His ''America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present'' was the first major work to examine the [[music of the United States|music of the entire 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.<ref>Crawford, pg. x</ref> He also "was the first to treat the music of [[Charles Ives]] and [[Carl Ruggles]] as important additions to the 20th-century repertory".<ref name="NYT"/> Along with [[Robert Stevenson (musicologist)|Robert Stevenson]], he was among the first American scholars to study the [[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 [[music of Spain|Spanish]] and [[Latin American music]].<ref name="Tulane">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tulane.edu/~jleonweb/chase.htm |title=Tulane University |access-date=2008-05-15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070623074148/http://www.tulane.edu/~jleonweb/chase.htm |archive-date=2007-06-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''The Music of Spain'' remains a seminal and much-used text.<ref name="NYT"/>

Chase served as the [[cultural attaché]] in [[Lima]] (1950–53), [[Buenos Aires]] (1953–55) and [[Brussels]] (1960–63).

Chase taught at [[Tulane University]],<ref name="Tulane"/> [[University of Texas]], and the [[University of Oklahoma]].<ref name="NYT"/> After retiring in 1979, he moved to [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]], and died there, of [[pneumonia]], in 1992.<ref name="NYT">[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6D8133AF934A15751C0A964958260 New York Times]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book
|author = Crawford, Richard
| authorlink =Richard Crawford (music historian)
|isbn = 0-393-04810-1
|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company
|title = America's Musical Life: A History
|url = https://archive.org/details/americasmusicall0000craw
|url-access = registration
|year = 2001
}}

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