Recent Scholarship
Music
Dunlap, James, “Through the Eyes of Tom Joad: Patterns of American Idealism, Bob Dylan, and the Folk Protest Movement,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (Dec. 2006), 549–73.
Gussow, Adam, “‘Where is the Love?’: Racial Violence, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities,” Southern Cultures, 12 (Winter 2006), 33–54.
Hishmeh, Richard E., “Marketing Genius: The Friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan,” Journal of American Culture, 29 (Dec. 2006), 395–405.
Le Menestrel, Sara, “French Music, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco: hiérarchisations et ligne de couler dans la musique franco-louisianaise” (French music, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco: Hierarchy and color line in French and Louisianan music), Civilisations (Brussels), 53 (no. 1–2, 2006), 117–44. In French.
Lena, Jennifer C., “Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979–1995,” Social Forces, 85 (Sept. 2006), 479–95.
Vinson, Duncan, “‘As Far From Secular, Operatic, Rag-time, and jig Melodies As Is Possible’: Religion and the Resurgence of Interest in the The Sacred Harp, 1895–1911,” Journal of American Folklore, 119 (Fall 2006), 413–43.
Babbit, Mark Paul, “Davis Shuman: A Biography” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3198767.
de Graaf, Melissa Jenny, “Documenting Music in the New Deal: The New York Composers’ Forum Concerts, 1935–1940” (Brandeis University, 2005). Order No. DA3200719.
Foster, Gary Mark, “Fred L. Grambs and His Influence on Instrumental Music in Late 19th Century Birmingham, Alabama” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3201251.
Fuller, Theodore Edward, “The Blackwood Brothers: A Southern Family and the Commercialization of Southern Gospel Music” (University of Memphis, 2005). Order No. DA3199467.
Hiam, Jonathan, “Music at Black Mountain College: The European Years, 1939–46” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3200791.
Kim, Ye-Ree, “The Impact of Stravinsky’s Serial Conversion on Composers of the ‘American Stravinsky School’: An Examination of Selected Works for Piano” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3204955.
Kopp, Christina Lee, “‘A School of New Men’: Composing an American Identity in the Early Twentieth Century” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3202560.
Persaud, Elarick R. Jerry, “Ghetto Echoes: Hip Hop’s Subversive Aesthetics” (York University, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANR11616.
Skinner, Katherine, “‘That We All Be Free’: Music and Social Change” (Emory University, 2005). Order No. DA3201414.
Ahlquist, Karen, ed., Chorus and Community. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x, 323 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03037-6.)
Bierley, Paul Edmund, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxii, 453 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03147-2.)
Jones, John Bush, The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2006. xvi, 338 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58465-443-8.)
Knapp, Raymond, The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xviii, 470 pp. $39.50, isbn 978-0-691-12524-4.)
Wagnleitner, Reinhold, ed., Satchmo Meets Amadeus. (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2006. 328 pp. Paper, €33.90, isbn 978-3-7065-4150-3.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
Full Text
