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Music

Baham, Nicholas L., III, “Radio Free Coltrane: Free Jazz Radio as Revolutionary Practice,” Americana, 5 (Fall 2006), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

Gottschalk, Stan, “Pete Seeger, the 5-String Banjo, and American Culture,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 25 (Dec. 2006), 12–22.

Hamann, Keitha Lucas, “Operetta Performance at Ramsey Junior High in Minneapolis: 1932–1966,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (Oct. 2006), 3–20.

Hoffbeck, Steven R., “Instamatic Memories: The Beatles in Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2007), 190–201. Heavily illustrated.

Ingram, David, “‘Go to the forest and move’: 1960’s American Rock Music as Electronic Pastoral,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 20, Winter 2006–2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

Isbell, Daniel, “The Steamboat Springs High School Ski Band, 1935–2005,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (Oct. 2006), 21–37.

Janzen, Rod, “Paul Tschetter’s ‘Chicago Fire’ Hymn,” Mennonite Quarterly Review, 81 (April 2007), 261–71.

Kukla, Jon, ed., “A Louisvillian Abroad: Daniel Chapman Banks’s 1822 Visit to New Orleans and Congo Square,” Ohio Valley History, 6 (Winter 2006), 48–59. Heavily illustrated.

Muller, Carol A., “American Musical Surrogacy: A View from Post–World War II South Africa,” Safundi (no. 23, July 2006), http://www.safundi.com.

Robinson, Suzanne, “‘A Ping, Qualified by a Thud’: Music Criticism in Manhattan and the Case of Cage (1943–58),” Journal of the Society for American Music, 1 (Feb. 2007), 79–139.

Von Glahn, Denise, and Michael Broyles, “Musical Modernism before It Began: Leo Ornstein and a Case for Revisionist History,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 1 (Feb. 2007), 29–55.

Wagnleitner, Reinhold, “Jazz—The Classical Music of Globalization,” in Satchmo Meets Amadeus, ed. Reinhold Wagnleitner, 280–322. (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2006. 328 pp. Paper, €33.90, isbn 978-3-7065-4150-3.)

 

Chin, Brian S., “The Music of Daniel Bukvich: A Biography, Analysis of Selected Works, and Annotated Guide to the Complete Works, 1978–2005” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3224200.

Feder, J. Lester, “‘Song of the South’: Country Music, Race, Region, and the Politics of Culture, 1920–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226073.

Lubach, Kaye Leora, “Tradition, Ideology, and the History of Hindustani Music in the United States in the 20th Century” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3226044.

Mitchell, Gillian Anna Margaret, “The Nation and National Identity in the Folk Music Revival Movement of Canada and the United States” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR15980.

Smisek, James J., “The United States Army Band ‘Pershing’s Own’: A Chronicle of the Commanders/Conductors from 1946 to 2000” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2006). Order No. DA3227707.

Vecchiola, Carla, “Detroit’s Rhythmic Resistance: Electronic Music and Community Pride” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224776.

 

Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff, Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, ‘Coon Songs,’ and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. viii, 461 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-57806-901-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Castagneto, Pierangelo, ed., L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (Ocean of sounds. Migrations, music, and race in the making of the Euro-Atlantic societies). (Turin: Otto, 2007. 239 pp. €18.00, isbn 88-95285-08-5.) In Italian.

Hayes, Eileen M., and Linda F. Williams, eds., Black Women and Music: More than the Blues. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 261 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03184-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07426-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

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