Recent Scholarship
Music
Radloff, Nancy Saultz, “Congregational Song in the Protestant Episcopal Church in Early America: Hopkinson, Eckhard, and Loud,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 77 (March 2008), 22–45.
Raeburn, Bruce Boyd, “‘They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away’: New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 812–19.
Von Schilling, James A., “Hearing the Boswell Sisters,” Popular Music and Society, 31 (May 2008), 191–200.
White, Michael G., “Reflections of an Authentic Jazz Life in Pre-Katrina New Orleans,” Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007), 820–27.
Bowers, Nathan David, “Creating a Home Culture for the Phonograph: Women and the Rise of Sound Recordings in the United States, 1877–1913” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3270123.
Franzius, Andrea Georgia Marina, “Soul Call: Music, Race, and the Creation of American Cultural Policy” (Duke University, 2006). Order No. DA3265268.
Horton, Ernest Aaron, “Charles Mingus and the Paradoxical Aspects of Race as Reflected in His Life and Music” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3270114.
Leavenworth, Peter S., “Accounting for Taste: The Early American Music Business and Secularization in Music Aesthetics, 1720–1825” (University of New Hampshire, 2007). Order No. DA3277142.
O’Connell, Joanne, “Understanding Stephen Collins Foster: His World and Music” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3270146.
Simonson, Mary Elizabeth, “Music, Dance, and Female Creativity in Early Twentieth-Century American Performance” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3280005.
Spring, Katherine, “Say It With Song: Popular Music in Hollywood Cinema during the Transition to Sound, 1927–1931” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007). Order No. DA3278824.
Thompson, Marilyn Angela, “W. C. Handy’s Contribution to African American Solo Vocal Concert Music” (Columbia University Teachers College, 2007). Order No. DA3269120.
Hartman, Gary, The History of Texas Music. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-001-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60344-002-8.)
Clague, Mark, ed., The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xvi, 367 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-520-25131-1.)
Dickens, Hazel, and Bill C. Malone, Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 102 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03304-9. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-252-07549-0.)
Hawes, Beth Lomax, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 182 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03313-1. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-252-07509-4.)
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