Richard Crawford (music historian)

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Richard Arthur Crawford (May 12, 1935 – July 23, 2024) was an American music historian and a professor of music at the University of Michigan. His book American Musical Landscape (2001) is considered a landmark in American music history. He wrote several other books and edited a series on American music. He was an honorary member and former president of the American Musicological Society, and one of the founding members of the Society for American Music. He founded and served as editor-in-chief of Music of the United States of America (MUSA). He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died of congestive heart failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on July 23, 2024, at age 89.