Recent Scholarship
Music
Bakker, Gerben, “The Making of a Music Multinational: PolyGram’s International Businesses, 1945–1998,” Business History Review, 80 (Spring 2006), 81–123.
Bonnin, Jeri W., “Katinka Dániel and Her Contributions to Kodály Pedagogy in the United States,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (Oct. 2005), 49–64.
Carithers, David, “Steve Earle and the Possibilities of Pragmatism,” Americana, 4 (Fall 2005) http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Crawford, Richard, “Where Did Porgy and Bess Come From?,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36 (Spring 2006), 697–734.
Elles, Marios, “Chinese Whispers: Jimi Hendrix, Fame, and ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 17, Spring 2006) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Gleason, Bruce P., “U.S. Mounted Bands and Cavalry Field Musicians in the Union Army during the Civil War—Background, Duties, and Training,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (April 2006), 102–19.
Horowitz, Joseph, “Music and the Gilded Age: Social Control and Sacralization Revisited,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 227–45.
Joyner, Charles, “A Region in Harmony: Southern Music and the Sound Track of Freedom,” Journal of Southern History, 72 (Feb. 2006), 3–38.
Lindstrom, Linda, “The Lehi Brass Band,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Winter 2006), 47–65.
Marcus, Kenneth H., “Living the Los Angeles Renaissance: A Tale of Two Black Composers,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 55–72.
May, Lissa Fleming, “Early Musical Development of Selected African American Jazz Musicians in Indianapolis in the 1930s and 1940s,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (Oct. 2005), 21–32.
McGill, Jason, “The Celebrity Club: Social Change in Postwar Providence,” Rhode Island History, 63 (Summer 2005), 31–48. Heavily illustrated.
Moon, Kyung-Suk, “The Commencement of the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Program: 1957–1966,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (April 2006), 71–84.
Newbury, Michael, “Polite Gaiety: Cultural Hierarchy and Musical Comedy, 1893–1904,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Oct. 2005), 381–407.
Spurgeon, Alan L., “msnc Comes of Age: George Oscar Brown and the 1928 Conference,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (Oct. 2005), 3–20.
Tobin, R. Nicholas, “A Chronicle of the First Degrees: Music Teacher Training from Normal School to State College,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 27 (April 2006), 85–101.
Vieker, Jon D., “‘Who from Our Mothers’ Arms’: The Story of the Hymnals That Came Before Us,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 79 (Spring 2006), 2–25.
Whitmer, Mariana, “Songs with Social Significance: An Introduction,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (July 2005), 9–16, 22.
Woodard, Patricia, “Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869–1919, Part II,” Methodist History, 44 (April 2006), 140–52.
Ames, Jeffery L., “A Pioneering Twentieth-Century African-American Musician: The Choral Works of George T. Walker” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3183034.
Carney, Courtney Patterson, “Jazz and the Cultural Transformation of America in the 1920s” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2003). Order No. DA3182877.
Granade, Samuel Andrew, II, “‘I was a bum once myself’: Harry Partch, ‘U.S. Highball,’ and the Dust Bowl in the American Imagination” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3182271.
Kinsella, Timothy P., “A World of Hurt: Art Music and the American War in Vietnam” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178088.
Meredith, Sarah, “With a Banjo on Her Knee: Gender, Race, Class, and the American Classical Banjo Tradition, 1880–1915” (Florida State University, 2003). Order No. DA3183093.
Stephens, Vincent Lamar, “Queering the Textures of Rock and Roll History” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178641.
Van Nostrand, Jill, “Minstrelsy in Post–Civil War New York, 1865–1870” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187433.
Dargan, William T., Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xvi, 320 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-520-23448-0.)
Gennari, John, Blowin’ Hot and Cold: Jazz and Its Critics. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 480 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-226-28922-2.)
Sanders, Paul D., ed., Lyrics and Borrowed Tunes of the American Temperance Movement. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. x, 281 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8262-1645-8.)
Silver, Horace, Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver, ed. Phil Pastras. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xviii, 264 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-520-24374-9.)
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