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South Side Impresarios - How Race Women Transformed Chicago'S Classical Music Scene

by Samantha Ege

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 Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicagoâ€™s South Side into a wellspring of music making.
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Beyond The Bandstand - Paul Whiteman In American Musical Culture

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 The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Multifaceted and cutting-edge, Sheppardâ€™s collection of essays confronts explores the racial politics and artistic questions surrounding a controversial figure in popular music.
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Bluegrass Odyssey - A Documentary In Pictures And Words, 1966-86

by Neil V Rosenberg

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 A journey into the heart of a truly American music. Combining Neil V Rosenberg's commentary with more than two hundred of Carl Fleischhauer's photographs, this documentary captures the music making together with the culture and community that foster it.
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Sound Pedagogy - Radical Care In Music

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 The editors of this volume curate essays that use a broad definition of care pedagogy, one informed by interdisciplinary scholarship and aimed at providing practical strategies for bringing transformative learning and engaged pedagogies to music classrooms.
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Union Divided - Black Musicians' Fight For Labor Equality

by Leta E. Miller

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 Miller follows the American Federation of Musicians (AFM)â€™s history of Black locals, which competed directly with white locals in the same territories, from their origins and successes in the 1920s through Depression-era crises to the fraught process of dismantling segregated AFM organizations in the 1960s and 70s.
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Aaron Copland In Latin America - Music And Cultural Politics

by Carol A. Hess

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 Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland's diaries inform Carol A. Hess's in-depth examination of the composer's approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland's tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland's introduced works by U.S. composers (including himself) through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess's focus on Latin America's reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind reviews of Copland and examines his critics in the context of their backgrounds, training, aesthetics, and politics.
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Heartbeat Of The People - Music And Dance Of The Northern Pow-Wow

by Tara Browner

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 The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. <i>Heartbeat of the People</i> is an insider''s journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events. Tara Browner focuses on the Northern pow-wow of the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes to investigate the underlying tribal and regional frameworks that reinforce personal tribal affiliations. Interviews with dancers and her own participation in pow-wow events and community provide fascinating on-the-ground accounts and provide detail to a rare ethnomusicological analysis of Northern music and dance.
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Artful Noise - Percussion Literature In The Twentieth Century

by Thomas Siwe

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 Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. In this concise book, percussionist Thomas Siwe offers an essential and much-needed survey of groundbreaking musical literature.
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Hawaiian Music In Motion - Mariners, Missionaries, And Minstrels

by James Revell Carr

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 Explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century.
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The Never-Ending Revival - Rounder Records And The Folk Alliance

by Michael F. Scully

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 A ground-breaking history of the American folk music revival
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Then Sings My Soul - The Culture Of Southern Gospel Music

by Douglas Harrison

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 Reading between the lines of southern gospel music
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Artful Noise - Percussion Literature In The Twentieth Century

by Thomas Siwe

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 Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. In this concise book, percussionist Thomas Siwe offers an essential and much-needed survey of groundbreaking musical literature.
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Yankee Twang - Country And Western Music In New England

by Clifford R. Murphy

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 Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, this book delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast.
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The Accordion In The Americas - Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, And More!

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 The accordion in the new world
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us - Field Recordings And The American Experience

by Stephen Wade

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 Uncovering the hidden histories of iconic American folksongs
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That Toddlin' Town - Chicago'S White Dance Bands And Orchestras, 1900-1950

by Charles A. Sengstock

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 Tells the unknown story of the business behind the bands that became an industry.
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Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, And Contemporary American Culture

by Patricia R. Schroeder

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 Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Though the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. This title gives his biography.
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Paul Hindemith In The United States

by Luther Noss

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 Shows the witty and vividly humorous side of Hindemith's personality.
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Pioneers Of The Blues Revival

by Steve Cushing

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 In the expanded second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Cushing adds new interviewees to the roster of prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s.
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Unsettled Scores - Politics, Hollywood, And The Film Music Of Aaron Copland And Hanns Eisler

by Sally Bick

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 <div>The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America''s potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood''s potential to reach—and edify—the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical ideas into Hollywood and, each in their own distinctive way, left an indelible mark on movie history. Sally Bick''s dual study of Copland and Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects: Copland''s music for Of Mice and Men and Eisler''s score for Hangmen Also Die! Bick illuminates the different ways the composers treated a film score as means of expressing their political ideas on society, capitalism, and the human condition. She also delves into Copland''s and Eisler''s often conflicted attempts to adapt their music to fit Hollywood''s commercial demands, an enterprise that took place even as they wrote hostile critiques of the film industry.</div>
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Blues Before Sunrise 2 - Interviews From The Chicago Scene

by Steve Cushing

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 <div>In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Memphis Minnie to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty "The Dancing Tailor" Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day. Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others while a handful of Cushing''s early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues.</div>
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Earl Scruggs And Foggy Mountain Breakdown - The Making Of An American Classic

by Thomas Goldsmith

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 <div>Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs''s instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass''s entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television. Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" against the backdrop of Scruggs''s legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Bela Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs''s musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.Passionate and long overdue, Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown takes readers on an ear-opening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven.</div>
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Mormons, Musical Theater, And Belonging In America

by Jake Johnson

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 <div>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life. Jake Johnson merges the study of belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to explore the surprising yet profound link between two quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas. Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology of voice--a religious practice that suggests how vicariously voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living. Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons to negotiate their way into middle-class respectability. At the same time, musical theater became a unique expressive tool of Mormon culture.</div>
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Leonard Bernstein And The Language Of Jazz

by Katherine Baber

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 <div>Leonard Bernstein''s gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein''s use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music''s value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein''s art and issues like eclecticism, music''s relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.</div>
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