Recent Scholarship
Music
Burke, Patrick, “Tear Down the Walls: Jefferson Airplane, Race, and Revolutionary Rhetoric in 1960s Rock,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 29 (Jan. 2010), 61–79.
Castro, J. Justin, “From the Tennessee River to Tahlequah: A Brief History of Cherokee Fiddling,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Winter 2009–2010), 388–407.
Davis, James A., “Musical Reconnaissance and Deception in the American Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 74 (Jan. 2010), 79–105.
Edmonds, Michael, “More Groovy than Woodstock: The Sound Storm Festival of April 1970,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Spring 2010), 28–41.
Fauser, Annegret, “‘Dixie Carmen’: War, Race, and Identity in Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones (1943),” Journal of the Society for American Music, 4 (May 2010), 127–74.
Garber, Michael, “‘Some of These Days’ and the Study of the Great American Songbook,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 4 (May 2010), 175–214.
Ohman, Marian M., “African and African-American Musicians Seeking Progress at a Century of Progress,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 368–401.
Piekut, Benjamin, “New Thing? Gender and Sexuality in the Jazz Composers Guild,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 25–48.
Roberts, Michael, “A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be: The American Musicians’ Union’s Attempt to Ban the Beatles, 1964,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 29 (Jan. 2010), 1–16.
Suisman, David, “Sound, Knowledge, and the ‘Immanence of Human Failure’: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano,” Social Text, 28 (Spring 2010), 13–34.
Ward, Brian, “Civil Rights and Rock and Roll: Revisiting the Nat King Cole Attack of 1956,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 21–24.
Gartner, Geoffrey Charles, “‘Piano Album: Short Piano Pieces, 1962–1984’ by Dick Higgins; A D.I.Y. Kit for Creative People of the Non-automaton Kind” (University of California, San Diego, 2009). Order No. DA3370162.
Hairston, Monica, “The Wrong Place for the Right People? Café Society, Jazz, and Gender, 1938–1947” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360477.
Heavner, Tabitha Wynne, “Culture of a Community: Good Music and the Conductors, Critics, and Patrons of Gilded Age New York” (University of Connecticut, 2009). Order No. DA3361010.
Ostendorf, Ann, “Sounding America: Identity, and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800–1860” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357967.
Raffo Dewar, Andrew, “Handmade Sounds: The Sonic Arts Union and American Technoculture” (Wesleyan University, 2009). Order No. DA3362663.
Howland, John, Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. x, 340 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-472-11605-8. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-472-03316-4.)
Marcus, Greil, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison. (New York: Public Affairs, 2010. x, 195 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-1-58648-821-5.) cd included.
Nolan, Tom, Three Chords for Beauty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw. (New York: Norton, 2010. xviii, 430 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-393-06201-4.)
Stricklin, David, Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010. xiv, 182 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-56663-836-4.)
Williams, Richard, The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. (New York: Norton, 2009. 309 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-393-07663-9.)
Wollman, Elizabeth L., The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical from Hair to Hedwig. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. viii, 271 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-472-11576-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-472-03402-4.)
Remsberg, Rich, Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxxii, 220 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03524-1. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-252-07709-8.) Heavily illustrated.
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