Recent Scholarship
Music
Alderman, Derek H., “The Politics of Saving the King’s Court: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2008), 46–77.
Bañagale, Ryan Raul, “‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves’: Bernstein’s Formative Relationship with Rhapsody in Blue,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 47–66.
Galván, Gary, “The abcs of the wpa Music Copying Project and the Fleisher Collection,” American Music, 26 (Winter 2008), 514–38.
de Graaf, Melissa J., “‘Never Call Us Lady Composers’: Gendered Receptions in the New York Composers’ Forum, 1935–1940,” American Music, 26 (Fall 2008), 277–308.
Harker, Brian, “Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia (and Vice Versa),” American Music, 26 (Fall 2008), 336–77.
Harnish, David, “Tejano Music in the Urbanizing Midwest: The Musical Story of Conjunto Master Jesse Ponce,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (May 2009), 195–219.
Jenkins, Chadwick, “A Question of Containment: Duke Ellington and Early Radio,” American Music, 26 (Winter 2008), 415–41.
Kaskowitz, Sheryl, “All in the Family: Brandeis University and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Jewish Boston,’” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 85–100.
Keightley, Keir, “Music for Middlebrows: Defining the Easy Listening Era, 1946–1966,” American Music, 26 (Fall 2008), 309–35.
Lifshey, Adam, “The Borderlands Poetics of Bruce Springsteen,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (May 2009), 221–41.
Neff, Severine, “An Unlikely Synergy: Lou Harrison and Arnold Schoenberg,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (May 2009), 155–93.
Oja, Carol J., and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, “Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 3–33.
Pichaske, David R., “Dylan and Minnesota Place in an Era of Virtual Reality,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (May 2009), 147–65.
Povletich, William, “Liberace: The Milwaukee Maestro,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Winter 2008–2009), 14–27. Heavily illustrated.
Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Canter Brown Jr., “‘The Art of Gathering a Crowd’: Florida’s Pat Chappelle and the Origins of Black-Owned Vaudeville,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Spring 2007), 169–90.
Sarna, Jonathan D., “Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Jewish Community of His Youth: The Influence of Solomon Braslavsky, Herman Rubenovitz, and Congregation Mishkan Tefila,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 35–46.
Spiller, Henry, “Tunes That Bind: Paul J. Seelig, Eva Gauthier, Charles T. Griffes, and the Javanese Other,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (May 2009), 129–54.
Botelho, Paula, “Brazilian Music in the New York Times: Sites for the Production of Representations of U.S. Dominance and the Consumption of Brazilian Popular Culture” (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008). Order No. DA3316069.
Hollingshaus, Wade James, “Currencies of Rock Performance: Youth, Electricity, and Capital” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3318017.
Keith, Laura Jessena Johnson, “Eileen Southern, ‘The Black Perspective in Music’: Documentation of Black Music History” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3321411.
McGinley, Paige A., “Sound Travels: Performing Diaspora and the Imagined American South” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3319110.
Orgill, Edward Roy, “Blue Hayes: An Analysis of the Performance Style of Jazz Saxophonist Tubby Hayes” (University of Northern Colorado, 2008). Order No. DA3318427.
Richter, Annett Claudia, “Fiddles, Harmonicas, and Banjos: Thomas Hart Benton and His Role in Constructing Popular Notions of American Folk Music and Musicians” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321928.
Thompson, Sandra D., “A History of Canterbury Choral Society, 1969–2007” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3315408.
Vander Wel, Stephanie, “‘I Am a Honky-Tonk Girl’: Country Music, Gender, and Migration” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3316985.
Browner, Tara, ed., Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Charters, Samuel, A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. x, 352 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4358-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4380-6.)
Hess, Earl J., and Pratibha A. Dabholkar, Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xiv, 331 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1656-5.)
Pieslak, Jonathan, Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35323-8. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-22087-5.)
Tawa, Nicholas, The Great American Symphony: Music, the Depression, and War. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 237 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-35305-4.)
Vennum, Thomas, The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. 348 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-87351-642-6.)
Winkler, Allan M., “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and Power of Song. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 223 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-0-19-532481-5.) Includes cd.
Goodwillie, Christian, and Jane F. Crosthwaite, eds., Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xvi, 297 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-55849-639-2.) Includes cd.
Rochberg, George, Five Lines, Four Spaces: The World of My Music. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 305 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03425-1.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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