John Tasker Howard (November 30, 1890 – November 20, 1964) was an early American music historian, radio host, writer, lecturer, and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def ...

. 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

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from 1940 to 1956.

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* . Bibliography of Howard, published in 1957 * Papers at the New York Public Library * Collection of correspondences to and from Howard, Foster Hall Collection, University of Pittsburgh. Section: C869 * 1890 births 1964 deaths American male composers American music historians 20th-century American composers 20th-century American historians Writers from Brooklyn Musicians from Brooklyn New York Public Library people 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Historians from New York (state) 20th-century American male musicians {{US-musician-stub