Recent Scholarship
Music
Aplin, T. Christopher, “‘This Is Our Dance’: The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 92–112. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)
Castro, J. Justin, “Amazing Grace: The Influence of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Oklahoma Ozark Music and Society,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 446–68.
Clarke, Martin V., “John Wesley’s ‘Directions for Singing’: Methodist Hymnody as an Expression of Methodist Beliefs in Thought and Practice,” Methodist History, 47 (July 2009), 196–209.
Draper, David E., “Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 67–91. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)
Fasce, Ferdinando, “Singing at Work: Italian Immigrants and Music during the Epoch of World War I,” Italian Americana, 27 (2009), 133–48.
Fontenot, Kevin S., and Ryan André Brasseaux, “Cleoma Breaux Falcon: The Commercialization of Cajun Music,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 237–52. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Hay, Fred J., “‘The Ballad Bug Is the Most Fatal Bug’: W. Amos ‘Doc’ Abrams, Song Collector,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Winter–Fall 2008), 65–73.
Kolin, Philip C., “Haunting America: Emmett Till in Music and Song,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 115–38.
Lafferty, Lucy, and Elaine Keillor, “Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 21–33. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)
Longobardi, Ruth Sara, “Re-producing Klinghoffer: Opera and Arab Identity before and after 9/11,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Aug. 2009), 273–310.
Mathews, Burgin, “‘When I Say Get It’: A Brief History of the Boogie,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 24–52.
Mercer-Taylor, Peter, “Mendelssohn in Nineteenth-Century American Hymnody,” Nineteenth-Century Music, 32 (Spring 2009), 235–83.
Miller, Leta E., and Catherine Parsons Smith, “Playing with Politics: Crisis in the San Francisco Federal Music Project,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 26–47. Heavily illustrated.
Olmstead, Andrea, “‘Like One of the Trees’: Roger Sessions and Hadley,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 317–34. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)
Robertson, Paul, “Ballads and Bytes: The Digitally Reproduced Folksong Collections of Dr. I. G. Greer and Dr. W. Amos Abrams,” North Carolina Folklore Journal, 55 (Winter–Fall 2008), 54–64.
Sargeant, Lynn M., “Singing the Nation into Being: Teaching Identity and Culture at the Turn of the Century,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Aug. 2009), 291–322.
Sercombe, Laurel, “The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 34–53. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)
Shultis, Christopher, “A ‘New Deal’ for American Composers: How the wpa Music Copying Project Added American Music to the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection,” American Music, 27 (Spring 2009), 87–101.
Vander, Judith, “The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 113–30. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)
Azcona, Steven César, “Movements in Chicano Music: Performing Culture, Performing Politics, 1965–1979” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3320607.
Cesare-Bartnicki, T. Nikki, “The Aestheticization of Reality: Postmodern Music, Art, and Performance” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320778.
Kainer, Eden Elizabeth, “Vocal Racial Crossover in the Song Performance of Three Iconic American Vocalists: Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), Elsie Janis (1889–1956), and Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996)” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327747.
Kim, Rebecca Y., “In No Uncertain Musical Terms: The Cultural Politics of John Cage’s Indeterminacy” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333375.
McCabe, C. Wilbert, “African American Sacred Music: An Afrocentric Historical Narrative” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326602.
Piekut, Benjamin D., “Testing, Testing . . .: New York Experimentalism 1964” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3335411.
Polk, Kristin Marie, “An Analysis of Form and Tonality in Arnold Cooke’s Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1957)” (University of North Texas, 2008). Order No. DA3326818.
Pritchett, Kathleen S., “The Career and Legacy of Hornist Joseph Eger: His Solo Career, Recordings, and Arrangements” (University of North Texas, 2008). Order No. DA3326819.
Rhoden, Myra King, “A History of the Tara Winds Community Band, Jonesboro, Georgia, 1988–2008” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3326722.
Stokes, James M., Jr., “The Musical Life and Career of James B. Underwood” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3325582.
Stufft, Monica Eugenia, “Chorus Girl Collective: Early 20th Century American Performance Communities and Urban Networking” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331806.
Vincent, Frederick Lewis, “The Lumpen: Music on the Front Lines of the Black Revolution” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331828.
Davenport, Lisa E., Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 219 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-268-9.)
Koegel, John, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840–1940. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xxvi, 593 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-1-58046-215-0.) Includes cd.
Newton-Matza, Mitchell, ed., Jazz Age: People and Perspectives. (Santa Barbara: abc-clio, 2009. xliv, 246 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-1-59884-033-9.)
Streissguth, Michael, Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xiv, 329 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-1-60473-269-6.) Originally published in 1997.
Wells, Keiko, Kokujin reika wa ikiteiru: Kashi de Yomu Amerika (The black spirituals are living: Reading America through lyrics). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2008. 226 pp. ¥3,360, isbn 978-4-00022-884-8.) In Japanese.
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