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Music

Bick, Sally, “Of Mice and Men: Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 426–72.

Carney, Court, “New Orleans and the Creation of Early Jazz,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (July 2006), 299–315.

Gnilov, B. G., “‘Rapsodiia’ Gershvina kak amerikanskii kul’turnyi revansh” (Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as an American cultural revenge), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Cul’tura (Moscow) (no. 6, 2005), 80–93. In Russian.

Kastin, David, “Nica’s Story: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (July 2006), 279–98.

Stewart, Polly, “Urban Pioneers: The Folk-Music Revival in Utah, 1959–1966,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Summer 2006), 220–30.

Vul’f, V., “Greta Garbo” (Greta Garbo), Kinosstenarii (Moscow) (no. 6, 2004), 148–61. In Russian.

 

Berish, Andrew Seth, “Swinging Transcontinental: Modernity, Race, and Place in American Dance Band Music, 1930 to 1946” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3188330.

Bruning, Stephanie, “The Indian Character Piece for Solo Piano (ca. 1890–1920): A Historical Review of Composers and Their Works” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3191814.

Huebert, Melva Horst, “American Numeral Notation: Thomas Harrison and the Fillmore Family of Cincinnati, Ohio” (Kent State University, 2005). Order No. DA3192523.

Inaba, Mitsutoshi, “Willie Dixon’s Work on the Blues: From the Early Recordings through the Chess and Cobra Years, 1940–1971” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3190524.

Korovina, T., “Proiskhozhdenie amerikanskogo bliuza kak problema kul’turologicheskogo ponimaniia” (The origins of American blues music as a problem of understanding in cultural studies) (Ural State University, Russia, 2005). In Russian.

Wang, Grace, “Soundtracks of Asian American Identity: Music, Race, and National Belonging” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3186784.

 

Gioia, Ted, Healing Songs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 244 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8223-3702-6.)

Gioia, Ted, Work Songs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 352 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8223-3726-6.)

Hollis, Tim, and Greg Ehrbar, Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xii, 221 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 1-57806-848-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-57806-849-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Pisani, Michael V., Imagining Native America in Music. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xvi, 422 pp. $48.00, isbn 978-0-300-10893-4.)

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