Recent Scholarship
Music
Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, “Cultural Diplomacy as Cultural Globalization: The University of Michigan Jazz Band in Latin America,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 4 (Feb. 2010), 59–93.
Friedman, Jonathan L., “Max Helfman in California: Creating Jewish Music,” Western States Jewish History, 42 (Fall 2009), 33–44.
Goble, J. Scott, “Nationalism in United States Music Education during World War II,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (April 2009), 103–17.
Hersey, Joanna Ross, and Jill M. Sullivan, “A History of the United States Coast Guard spar Band,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (April 2009), 118–46.
Jennings, Harlan, “Jenny Lind Comes to Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Jan. 2010), 63–77. Heavily illustrated.
Kurkov, N. V., “Russkaia opernaia gruppa dirizhera M. M. Fiveiskogo v Amerike v 1920-e gody” (The Russian Grand Opera Company of conductor M. M. Fiveiskii in America in the 1920s), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 315–20. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.
Nekola, Anna, and Bill Kirkpatrick, “Cultural Policy in American Music History: Sammy Davis Jr. vs. Juvenile Delinquency,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 4 (Feb. 2010), 33–58.
Platt, Melvin, “High School Credit Awarded for Outside Applied Music Study: A Review of Early Twentieth-Century Practices in the United States,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 31 (Oct. 2009), 6–19.
Powers, Devon, “The ‘Folk Problem’: The Village Voice Takes on Folk Music, 1955–65,” Journalism History, 33 (Winter 2008), 205–14.
Specht, Joe W., “‘I’m a Tool Pusher from Snyder’: Slim Willet’s Oil Patch Songs,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (Jan. 2010), 293–309.
Thoen, Marcia L., “Early Twentieth Century Orchestra Education Outreach in Minneapolis: Young People’s Symphony Concert Association and the Repertoire Programmed and Conducted by Emil Oberhoffer, 1911–1922,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 31 (Oct. 2009), 5.
Thomas, W. John, “The Devil and Mr. Johnson: A Bluesman’s Cultural Legacy at an Interllectual Property Crossroads,” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, 11 (Fall 2009), 1–26.
Warnock, Emery C., “The Anti-Semitic Origins of Henry Ford’s Arts Education Patronage,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (April 2009), 79–102.
Young, Kevin W., “The Murder of Gladys Kincaid: The Story behind the Ballads,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 56 (Spring-Summer 2009), 21–32.
Dombach, Amy Sue, “The Development of the Flute Concerto in 20th-Century America: A Comprehensive Survey and Database” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3348595.
Leach, James Daniel, “‘Into My Blood’: Louis Armstrong the Singer” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3348605.
Lewis, Ryan C., “Much More than Ragtime: The Musical Life of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970)” (University of South Carolina, 2009). Order No. DA3354817.
Sharp, Charles Michael, “Improvisation, Identity, and Tradition: Experimental Music Communities in Los Angeles” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3354402.
Statham, Sabra Isadore, “Contemporary Music and the Publishing Industry in America from 1938 to 1965 as Represented in Letters and Documents of the Displaced Universal Edition Composers and Their Publishing Agents” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3354718.
Woodworth, Griffin Mead, “‘Just Another One of God’s Gifts’: Prince, African-American Masculinity, and the Sonic Legacy of the Eighties” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3356535.
Döhol, Frédéric, “…that old barbershop sound”: Die Entstehung einer Tradition amerikanischer A-cappella-Musik (“…that old barbershop sound”: The emergence of a tradition of American a cappella music). (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009. 294 pp. €54,00, isbn 978-3-515-09354-5.) In German.
Muir, Peter C., Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850–1920. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-252-03487-9. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-07676-3.)
Cushing, Steve, Blues before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 256 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03301-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07718-0.)
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