Recent Scholarship
Music
Bick, Sally, “Of Mice and Men: Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 426–72.
Jenkins, Tricia, “Country Music Tradition and Thomas Jefferson’s Agricultural Ideal,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (Feb. 2006), 37–50.
Maeda, Daryl J., “Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen: Constructing Asian American Identity through Performing Blackness, 1969–1972,” American Quarterly, 57 (Dec. 2005), 1079–1103.
McKnight, Mark, “Charivaris, Cowbellions, and Sheet Iron Bands: Nineteenth-Century Rough Music in New Orleans,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 407–25.
Miller, Leta E., and Rob Collins, “The Cowell-Ives Relationship: A New Look at Cowell’s Prison Years,” American Music, 23 (Winter 2005), 473–92.
O’Grady, Thomas, “‘The Decisive Moment’: The Metronome All-Stars, 1949,” Journal of American Culture, 28 (Dec. 2005), 377–89.
Ostendorf, Ann M., “Where Music Is Not the Devil Enters: Children’s Music Instruction in Late Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Winter 2005–2006), 2–11. Heavily illustrated.
Taylor, Judith M., “Three Jewish Violinists and California: Jascha Heifetz, 1901–1987; Yehudi Menuhin, 1916–1999; Isaac Stern, 1920–2001,” Western States Jewish History, 38 (Fall 2005), 62–86.
Wald, Gayle, “‘Have a little talk’: Listening to the B-side of History,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 24 (Oct. 2005), 323–37.
Woodard, Patricia, “Musical Life at Ocean Grove, New Jersey: The First Fifty Years, 1869–1919 (Part I),” Methodist History, 44 (Jan. 2006), 67–79.
Gopinath, Sumanth S., “Contraband Children: The Politics of Race and Liberation in the Music of Steve Reich, 1965–1966” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168896.
Gustafson, Ruth Iana, “Merry Throngs and Street Gangs: The Fabrication of Whiteness and the Worthy Citizen in Early Vocal Instruction and Music Appreciation, 1830–1930” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3175474.
Jones, Ryan Patrick, “The Tender Land: Aaron Copland’s American Narrative” (Brandeis University, 2005). Order No. DA3166268.
Lancefield, Robert Charles, “Hearing Orientality in (White) America, 1900–1930” (Wesleyan University, 2005). Order No. DA3167976.
Mangan, John Richard, “Divided Choirs: Musicologists, Music Performers, and the Course of Music Study in American Higher Education” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174846.
Tsai, Shuyuan, “An Influential Pedagogue, Robert Scholz (1902–1986): Catalogue and Sources” (University of Northern Colorado, 2005). Order No. DA3171936.
Bohlman, Philip V., Edith L. Blumhofer, and Maria M. Chow, eds., Music in American Religious Experience. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 350 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-19-517304-X.)
Crew, Danny O., American Political Music: A State-by-State Catalog of Printed and Recorded Music Related to Local, State, and National Politics, 1756–2004. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005. Vol 1: xvi, 422; Vol. 2: viii, 455 pp. Paper, $95.00, isbn 0-7864-2286-6.)
Wells, Keiko, Folk song no america (American folk songs). (Tokyo: Nanundo, 2004. 382 pp. ¥3,800, isbn 4523264392.) In Japanese.
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