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Adelt, Ulrich, “Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of ‘Race’ and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival,” American Quarterly, 60 (Dec. 2008), 951–74.

Byrd, Joseph, “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in American College Textbooks,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 77–86.

Cohen, Judah, “Hip-Hop Judaica: The Politics of Representin’ Heebster Heritage,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 28 (Jan. 2009), 1–18.

Fitzgerald, Jon, “Creating Those Good Vibrations: An Analysis of Brian Wilson’s U.S. Top 40 Hits, 1963–66,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Feb. 2009), 3–24.

 

Chybowski, Julia J., “Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314214.

Ferguson, Homer Ashton, III, “John Brombaugh: The Development of America’s Master Organ Builder” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3304832.

Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie, “‘Sparring with Fate’: Miriam Gideon’s 1958 Opera Fortunato” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3303790.

Priest, Charles Thomas, “Regionalism in Selected Musical Works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911–1955)” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008). Order No. DA3314607.

Redmond, Shana L., “Anthem: Music and Politics in Diaspora, 1920–1970s” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317206.

 

Dolan, Brian, Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Musical Industry. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xx, 205 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7425-6127-4.)

Rustin, Nichole T., and Sherrie Tucker, eds., Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 460 pp. Cloth, $94.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4336-3. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4320-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Waksman, Steve, This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 391 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-520-25310-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25717-7.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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