Recent Scholarship
Music
Avant-Mier, Roberto, “Latinos in the Garage: A Genealogical Examination of the Latino/a Presence and Influence in Garage Rock (And Rock and Pop Music),” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 555–74.
Bailey, Walter B., “‘Will Schoenberg Be a New York Fad?’: The 1914 American Premiere of Schoenberg’s String Quartet in D Minor,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 37–73.
Berish, Andrew, “‘I Dream of Her and Avalon’: 1930s Sweet Jazz, Race, and Nostalgia at the Casino Ballroom,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 531–67.
Dadamo, Florencia, “Las voces del jazz: La melodía sincopada de la libertad” (The sounds of jazz: The syncopated melody of freedom), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.
Fresne, Jeannette, “History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 21–38.
Gibbons, William, “‘Yankee Doodle’ and Nationalism, 1780–1920,” American Music, 26 (Summer 2008), 246–74.
Hanson, Michael, “Suppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism, and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 341–65.
Hash, Phillip M., “History of the Illinois School Band Association: 1924–1941,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 4–20.
Krikun, Andrew, “Popular Music and Jazz in the American Junior College Music Curriculum during the Swing Era (1935–1945),” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 39–49.
McGee, Kristin, “The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All-Girl Bands: The Case of the Ingenues,” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 629–62.
Rapport, Evan, “Bill Finegan’s Gershwin Arrangements and the American Concept of Hybridity,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 2 (Nov. 2008), 507–30.
Spring, Katherine, “Pop Go the Warner Bros., et. al.: Marketing Film Songs during the Coming of Sound,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 68–89.
Stephens, Vincent, “Crooning on the Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz and Pop Vocal Singing Discourse in the Rock Era, 1955–1978,” American Music, 26 (Summer 2008), 156–95.
Stratton, Jon, “The Beastie Boys: Jews in Whiteface,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 27 (Oct. 2008), 413–32.
Sutton, Matthew, “Little America: R.E.M., Howard Finster, and the Southern ‘Outsider Art’ Aesthetic,” Studies in Popular Culture, 30 (Spring 2008), 1–20.
Wise, Timothy, “Lullabies, Laments, and Ragtime Cowboys: Yodeling at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 13–36.
Woodard, Patricia, “‘Flee as a Bird’: Mary Dana Shindler’s Legacy,” American Music, 26 (Spring 2008), 74–103.
Choi, Jaehee, “They Do That Voodoo So Well: A Critical Examination of Selected Songs of the Founders of the American Standard Songbook” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291892.
Fountain, Richard Daniel, “Edward MacDowell and the Formation of an American Musical Culture” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3302728.
Gray, Justin, “Motivic Development in the Piano Music of Karl Weigl (1881–1949)” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300946.
Greenberg, Jonathan Ross, “Singing Up Close: Voice, Language, and Race in American Popular Music, 1925–1935” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3302595.
Hennessey, Patrick D., “Henry Berger: From Prussian Army Musician to ‘Father of Hawaiian Music,’ the Life and Legacy of Hawai‘i’s Bandmaster” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3302135.
Hopkinson, Natalie Adele, “Go-Go Live: Washington, D.C.’s Cultural Information Network, Drumming the News, Knitting Communities, and Guarding a Black Public Sphere” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297264.
Johnson, Earl Lee, “Style Characteristics of Selected American Hymn Arrangements for Piano, Published 1963–2003” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300653.
Nicholas, Christopher J., “The Original Compositions and Arrangements of Paul Lavalle in the Band of America Archive at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301766.
Nicholsen, Michael D., “‘Auld Sod’ and the New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868–1999” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295469.
Patterson, Gary Walter, “George W. Bragg Jr. and His Techniques for Training the Preadolescent Boy’s Voice as Demonstrated through the Texas Boys Choir: 1946–1975” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3301210.
Patterson, Karin Gaynell, “Expressions of Africa in Los Angeles Public Performance, 1781–1994” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295731.
Pruett, Laura Moore, “Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Sullivan Dwight, and the Development of Musical Culture in the United States, 1853–1865” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301584.
Purdy, Christopher C., “Edward Downes: A Life in Music and the Media” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300145.
Rasmussen, Christopher, “Lonely Sounds: Popular Recorded Music and American Society, 1949–1979” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008). Order No. DA3297654.
Thompson, Daniel N., “The Role of Music in the Construction and Maintenance of Irish Identity among Musicians in New York City at the Turn of the Millennium” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299318.
Wolf, Mary Montgomery, “‘We Accept You, One of Us?’: Punk Rock, Community, and Individualism in an Uncertain Era, 1974–1985” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289089.
Cantwell, Robert, If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxviii, 282 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03362-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07566-7.)
Cohen, Ronald D., A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States: Feasts of Musical Celebration. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. xvi, 155 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6202-9.)
Everett, William, Rudolf Friml. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 132 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03381-0.)
Govenar, Alan, Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxii, 599 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-58544-605-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Jones, Loyal, Country Music: Humorists and Comedians. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 427 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03369-8.)
Malone, Bill C., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 12: Music. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 428 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3239-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8078-5908-7.)
Tick, Judith, ed., Music in the usa: A Documentary Companion. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxxviii, 881 pp. Cloth, $149.95, isbn 978-0-19-513987-7. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-19-513988-4.)
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