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Belichenko, S. A., “Istoriia stanovleniia amerikanskogo dzhaza” (The history of American jazz), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Kul’tura (Moscow), 4 (2007), 82–91. In Russian.

Ferris, William R., “Alan Lomax: The Long Journey,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 132–43.

Jacobson, Marion S., “Searching for Rockordion: The Changing Image of the Accordion in America,” American Music, 25 (Summer 2007), 216–47.

Lawson, R. A., “The First Century of Blues: One Hundred Years of Hearing and Interpreting the Music and the Musicians,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 39–61.

Le Menestrel, Sara, “The Color of Music: Social Boundaries and Stereotypes in Southwest Louisiana French Music,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 87–105.

Lee, William R., “A New Look at a Significant Cultural Moment: The Music Supervisors National Conference, 1907–1932,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (April 2007), 93–110.

Livingston, Carolyn, “menc and Music Education, 1933–1957: Survival and Growth through a Challenging Era,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (April 2007), 111–26.

Marcus, Kenneth H., “The Seriousness of Comedy: The Benefit Concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye,” American Music, 25 (Summer 2007), 137–68.

Mark, Michael L., “menc from 1957 to 1982: Music Education against the Backdrop of the Cold War, the Struggle for Civil Rights, and Emerging Technology,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (April 2007), 127–39.

McCarthy, Marie, “Widening Horizons with a Global Lens: menc Responds to the New World Order, 1982–2007,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 28 (April 2007), 140–54.

Muller, Carol, “Musical Echoes of American Jazz: Towards a Comparative Historiography,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.

O’Meara, Caroline Polk, “The Bush Tetras, ‘Too Many Creeps,’ and New York City,” American Music, 25 (Summer 2007), 193–215.

Rothenbuhler, Eric W., “Myth and Collective Memory in the Case of Robert Johnson,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (Aug. 2007), 189–205.

Titlestad, Michael, “Traveling Jazz: Themes and Riffs,” Safundi, 8 (Jan. 2007), http://www.safundi.com.

 

Berglund, Michael Howard, “Songs of Desire and the Self: Opera in the Work of Walt Whitman, Henry James, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein” (University of Tulsa, 2006). Order No. DA3240304.

Boutwell, Brett N., “A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950–1970” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3242797.

Brown, Gwynne Kuhner, “Problems of Race and Genre in the Critical Reception of Porgy and Bess” (University of Washington, 2006). Order No. DA3241881.

Carr, James Revell, “In the Wake of John Kanaka: Musical Interactions between Euro-American Sailors and Pacific Islanders, 1600–1900” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3245924.

Finer, Leslie Jane, “The Dissemination and Reception of Liszt’s Piano Music in New York, 1835–1875” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3248009.

Grad, Karene Esther, “When High Culture Became Popular Culture: Classical Music in Postwar America, 1945–1965” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243633.

Mather, Olivia Carter, “‘Cosmic American Music’: Place and the Country Rock Movement, 1965–1974” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3240954.

 

Ferris, William R., Michael K. Honey, and Pete Seeger, “Pete Seeger, San Francisco, 1989,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Fall 2007), 5–38.

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