Recent Scholarship
Music
Brooks, Tim, “Only in America: The Unique Status of Sound Recordings under U.S. Copyright Law and How It Threatens Our Audio Heritage,” American Music, 27 (Summer 2009), 125–37.
Clark, John L., Jr., “Archie Bleyer and the Lost Influence of Stock Arrangements in Jazz,” American Music, 27 (Summer 2009), 138–79.
Ertan, Deniz, “When Men and Mountains Meet: Ruggles, Whitman, and Their Landscapes,” American Music, 27 (Summer 2009), 227–53.
Guenin-Lelle, Dianne, and Alison Harris, “The Role of Music Festivals in the Cultural Renaissance of Southwest Louisiana in the Late Twentieth Century,” Louisiana History, 50 (Fall 2009), 461–72.
Horowitz, Joseph, “Henry Krehbiel: German American, Music Critic,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (April 2009), 165–88.
Huber, Patrick, “Mill Mother’s Lament: Ella May Wiggins and the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 81–110.
Hunnicutt, Gwen, and Kristy Humble Andrews, “Tragic Narratives in Popular Culture: Depictions of Homicide in Rap Music,” Sociological Forum, 24 (Sept. 2009), 611–30.
Jabir, Johari, “On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 649–70.
Kish, Zenia, “‘My fema People’: Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 671–92.
LaBennett, Oneka, “Histories and ‘Her Stories’ from the Bronx: Excavating Hidden Hip Hop Narratives,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 109–31.
Samponaro, Philip, “‘Oye mi canto’ (‘Listen to My Song’): The History and Politics of Reggaeton,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Oct. 2009), 489–506.
Sutton, Mark, “Roadmaps for the Soul: History and Cartography in Bob Dylan’s Early Songs,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 17–33.
Wheeler, Anne P., “The Music of the Early Nineteenth-Century Camp Meeting Song in Service to Evangelistic Revival,” Methodist History, 48 (Oct. 2009), 23–42.
Wikstrom, Patrik, and Robert Burnett, “Same Songs, Different Wrapping: The Rise of the Compilation Album,” Popular Music and Society, 32 (Oct. 2009), 507–22.
Yorgason, Laurence M., “All Too Rare: The Rise and Fall of Jazz djs on Utah am Radio, 1945–1965,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 351–64.
Black, Cassandra Aaron, “A Primative-Donna: A Survey of the Operatic Career of Eleanor Steber” (University of Houston, 2208). Order No. DA3342756.
Cee, Vincent J., “Christopher Small and Music Education, 1977–2007” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3336978.
Daley, Michael, “A Historiography of Rock Music, 1955–1976” (York University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR45991.
Gehl, Robin S., “Reassessing a Legacy: Rachmaninoff in America, 1918–1943” (University of Cincinnati, 2008). Order No. DA3340844.
Gelb, Gregg, “1959 Jazz: A Historical Study and Critical Analysis of Jazz and Its Artists and Recordings in 1959” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2008). Order No. DA3337467.
Gentry, Philip Max, “The Age of Anxiety: Music, Politics, and McCarthyism, 1948–1954” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335971.
Greene, Stephen R., “Visions of a ‘Musical America’ in the Radio Age” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335759.
Hamill, Chad Stephen, “Songs from Spirit: Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2008). Order No. DA3337041.
Hayes, Casey J., “Building Bridges through Song: A Qualitative Study of Educational Outreach by the New York City Ambassador Chorus” (New York University, 2009).
Lougran, Maureen E., “Community Powered Resistance: Radio, Music Scenes, and Musical Activism in Washington D.C.” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335677.
Morales, Robin Lee, “A Performer’s Guide to the American Musical Theater Songs of Kurt Weill (1900–1950)” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3337135.
Ruggles, Brock, “Not So Quiet on the Western Front: Punk Politics during the Conservative Ascendancy in the United States, 1980–2000” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338405.
Saltanaviciute, Jurgita, “‘They Sang What They Lived’: Reconstructions of Lakota Culture through Songs” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3336786.
Saunders, Martin W., “Nat Adderley (1931–2000) and ‘Work Song’: An Analysis of Improvisational Style and Evolution” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3337149.
Smith, Jeremy Allen, “Sound, Meditation, and Meaning in Miles Davis’s ‘A Tribute to Jack Johnson’” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3336729.
Clover, Joshua, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv, 187 pp. $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25255-4.)
Fox, Jon Hartley, King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxii, 234 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03468-8.)
Rimler, Walter, George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 204 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03444-2.)
Turner, Richard Brent, Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 182 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35357-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-22120-9.)
Ferris, William, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 302 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3325-4.) Includes cd and dvd.
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