ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
2020
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UNLIKELY ANGEL
The Songs of Dolly Parton
LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY Foreword by Steve Buckingham The creative process of a great American songwriter “Lydia Hamessley invites us on a deep dive into the world of Dolly Parton as songwriter. The book weaves together insightful analyses of the musical forms, cultural roots, and meanings found in Parton’s vast catalog, with Parton’s own accounts of her music. Hamessley unveils these songs as the heart and substance of Parton’s contributions to popular culture, and will inspire every reader to take yet another listen.” —JOCELYN R. NEAL, author of Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History Dolly Parton’s success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton’s compositions like “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music.
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Lydia R. Hamessley’s expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar’s songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women’s lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love.
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Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton’s career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image. LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY is a professor of music at Hamilton College.
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WHEN SUNDAY COMES
Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD Gospel music after the Golden Age “When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for—a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music.” —ROBERT M. MAROVICH, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post– Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold’s in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel’s incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.
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Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is a professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.
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SOUL ON SOUL
The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
TAMMY L. KERNODLE With a new preface A jazz woman in a jazzman’s world, with a new preface by the author “Diligently chronicles the life and times of the extraordinary innovator.” —JAZZ TIMES The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz’s compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls.
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Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams’s life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women’s place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music’s evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams’s contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages.
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In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.
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TAMMY L. KERNODLE is a professor of musicology at Miami University of Ohio. She served as associate editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American Music and as a senior editor for the revision of New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BLUEGRASS
Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
Edited by FRED BARTENSTEIN and CURTIS W. ELLISON Foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg High lonesome in the heartland “A new urban folk music, nurtured and shaped by a folk community in an industrial setting, has made the world familiar with southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass. Many facets of the region’s rich musical heritage are explored and celebrated in this book, a welcome addition to the literature on bluegrass.” —NEIL V. ROSENBERG, from the foreword In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between 1947 and 1989, they created an internationally renowned capital for the thriving bluegrass music genre, centered on the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, and Springfield. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording studios, record labels, and performance venues, along with the music’s contributions to religious activities, community development, and public education. As the bluegrass scene grew, southwestern Ohio’s distinctive sounds reached new fans and influenced those everywhere who continue to play, produce, and love roots music.
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Revelatory and multifaceted, Industrial Strength Bluegrass shares the inspiring story of a bluegrass hotbed and the people who created it.
Publication supported by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.
Contributors: Fred Bartenstein, Curtis W. Ellison, Jon Hartley Fox, Rick Good, Lily Isaacs, Ben Krakauer, Mac McDivitt, Nathan McGee, Daniel Mullins, Joe Mullins, Larry Nager, Phillip J. Obermiller, Bobby Osborne, and Neil V. Rosenberg.
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FRED BARTENSTEIN is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson. CURTIS W. ELLISON is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson’s The Big Ballad Jamboree.
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AMERICAN GAMELAN AND THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL IMAGINATION ELIZABETH A. CLENDINNING Gamelan history and practice in the diaspora "An ambitious work that can really spark scholarship that intersects ethnomusicology, performance studies, and the scholarship on teaching and learning. Clendinning discusses the positive aspects of world music ensembles, but is also open about the ethical issues involved in running a gamelan in an institution of higher education." —ERIC HUNG, Music of Asian America Research Center Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one’s life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community surrounding the Balinese-American performer and teacher I Made Lasmawan. Weaving together stories of Indonesian and American practitioners, colleagues, and friends, Clendinning shows the impact of academic world music ensembles on the local and transnational communities devoted to education and the performing arts. While arguing for the importance of such ensembles, Clendinning also spotlights how performers and educators use them to create stable and rewarding artistic communities. Cross-cultural ensemble education emerges as a worthy goal for students and teachers alike, particularly at a time when people around the world express more enthusiasm about raising walls to keep others out rather than building bridges to invite them in.
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ELIZABETH A. CLENDINNING is an assistant professor of music at Wake Forest University.
Publication supported by a grant from the Bruno Nettl Endowment for Ethnomusicology.
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ALWAYS THE QUEEN
The Denise LaSalle Story
DENISE LASALLE, with DAVID WHITEIS The autobiography of the southern soul superstar “I’ve known Denise LaSalle for many years personally, professionally, and spiritually. Her legacy will live on forever. I am blessed to have been a ‘Knight in Her Majesty’s court.’ Long live the Queen.” —BENNY LATIMORE Denise LaSalle’s journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated the classic blueswoman’s stance of powerful independence while her earthy lyrics about relationships connected with generations of female fans. Off-stage, she enjoyed ongoing success as a record label owner, entrepreneur, and genre-crossing songwriter. As honest and no-nonsense as the artist herself, Always the Queen is LaSalle’s in-her-own-words story of a lifetime in music. Moving to Chicago as a teen, LaSalle launched a career in gospel and blues that eventually led to the chart-topping 1971 smash “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” and a string of R&B hits. She reinvented herself as a soul-blues artist as tastes changed and became a headliner on the revitalized southern soul circuit and at festivals nationwide and overseas. Revered for a tireless dedication to her music and fans, LaSalle continued to tour and record until shortly before her death.
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DENISE LASALLE (1934–2018) was a soul and blues singer-songwriter and businesswoman. Her songs include “Trapped by a Thing Called Love,” “Married, but Not to Each Other,” and the modern-day soul-blues standards “A Lady in the Street,” “Don’t Jump My Pony,” and “Someone Else Is Steppin’ In.” LaSalle entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. His books include Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago and Southern Soul-Blues.
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THE HEART OF A WOMAN
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
RAE LINDA BROWN Edited and with a Foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. Afterword by Carlene J. Brown An in-depth look at the groundbreaking black woman composer “Rae Linda Brown’s work extends beyond the conventional biography as it offers an analytical narrative that interrogates Price’s negotiation of the politics of race and gender, her role in advancing the black symphonic aesthetic, and her dedication to social change and racial equality on and off of the concert stage.” —TAMMY L. KERNODLE, author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.
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Price’s twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price’s major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
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RAE LINDA BROWN was a professor at the University of Michigan and a professor and Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She was the author of Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. She died in 2017. GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY JR. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop.
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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE
Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School
Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.” —GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 232 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES
University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.
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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.
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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.
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HILLBILLY MAIDENS, OKIES, AND COWGIRLS
Women’s Country Music, 1930–1960
STEPHANIE VANDER WEL Pioneering women and their soundtrack of searching in country music “Women’s struggle for inclusion is one of the biggest stories in country music today. Vander Wel’s rich history shows how female artists fought for a voice and made it central to country’s stories of gender, class, and migration in mid– twentieth-century America.” —NADINE HUBBS, author of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honkytonk angel.
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Stephanie Vander Wel looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music’s golden age. Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, she connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women’s ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity.
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STEPHANIE VANDER WEL is an associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo.
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MUSICAL ETHICS AND ISLAM
The Art of Playing the Ney
BANU ŞENAY The “sweet servitude” of learning the ney in today’s Turkey “Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind’s eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. Şenay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher’s ‘jealous gift.’ It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike.” —MARTIN STOKES, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkey’s secularized society disdained the ney, the Sufi reed flute long associated with Islam. The instrument’s remarkable revival in today’s cities has inspired the creation of teaching and learning sites that range from private ney studios to cultural and religious associations and from university clubs to mosque organizations.
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Banu Şenay documents the years-long training required to become a neyzen—a player of the ney. The process holds a transformative power that invites students to create a new way of living that involves alternative relationships with the self and others, changing perceptions of the city, and a dedication to craftsmanship. Şenay visits reed harvesters and travels from studios to workshops to explore the practical processes of teaching and learning. She also becomes an apprentice ney-player herself, exploring the desire for spirituality that encourages apprentices and masters alike to pursue ney music and its scaffolding of Islamic ethics and belief.
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BANU ŞENAY is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey’s Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.
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SIGNS OF THE SPIRIT
Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
TONY PERMAN Investigating the power of music to shape emotion and community in Zimbabwe “Perhaps of the greatest benefit for anyone in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, Signs of the Spirit provides the most thorough and coherent general theory of music and emotion to date. Perman’s theory, in turn, is based on a highly specified explanation of the ways that musical performance and emotion are meaningful and, especially, the ways iconic and symbolic generality are transformed into an unqualified experience of the indexical here-and-now.” —THOMAS TURINO, author of Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
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In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity.
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Perman’s encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life’s milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau’s collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community.
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TONY PERMAN is an assistant professor of music at Grinnell College.
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EARL SCRUGGS AND FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN
The Making of an American Classic
THOMAS GOLDSMITH The breakneck banjo tune that became a song for the ages “The Bluegrass Reader successfully manages to appeal to both the bluegrass insider and the newcomer to the genre, and in the process has given well-deserved new life to some masterful bits of writing.” —BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED
“An enormous contribution to the history of bluegrass and a fascinating read, well organized and well told. Goldsmith’s lengthy interview with Earl is a treasure trove of information not only about ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown’ but about the early days of bluegrass and specifically Earl’s working relationship with Bill Monroe, which has long been clouded in mystery.” —MURPHY HICKS HENRY, author of Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass 200 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
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.
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Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of “Foggy Mountain Break down” against the backdrop of Scruggs’s legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Béla 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.
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THOMAS GOLDSMITH is a music journalist. For more than thirty years, he has worked both in daily newspapers in North Carolina and Tennessee and as a freelance writer. He is the editor of The Bluegrass Reader and was the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Print Media Person of the Year.
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BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE 2
Interviews from the Chicago Scene
STEVE CUSHING Face-to-face with the blues, one more time “Cushing has provided a massive public service . . . with this enthralling volume.” —JUKE BLUES
“Rarely are sequels better than the originals, but Blues Before Sunrise 2 is a happy exception. Cushing delivers another truly significant contribution to the blues literature.” —EDWARD KOMARA, editor of Encyclopedia of the Blues 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 Brewer Phillips (talking about his days with 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.
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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.
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Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues. STEVE CUSHING has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews and Pioneers of the Blues Revival.
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BLUES LEGACY
Tradition and Innovation in Chicago
DAVID WHITEIS Photographs by Peter M. Hurley Chicago blues artists performing against the backdrop of history “Appealing to serious jazz fans, Whiteis’s history serves as a handy reference to Chicago blues. “ —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“In his latest history on Chicago blues, Whiteis is, as usual, informative and stimulating, while addressing some considerably contentious issues. The author has long demonstrated that he is one of the best writers on blues. He has a way with words that can paint a vivid portrait of his subject or scene.” —ROBERT PRUTER, author of Chicago Soul 336 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 49 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it continues to provide a soundtrack to, and a dynamic commentary on, the African American experience: the legacy of slavery; historic promises and betrayals; opportunity and disenfranchisement; and the ongoing struggle for freedom. Through it all, the blues remains steeped in survivorship and triumph, a music that dares to stare down life in all its injustice and iniquity and still laugh—and dance—in its face.
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David Whiteis delves into how the current and upcoming Chicago blues generations carry on this legacy. Drawing on in-person interviews, Whiteis places the artists within the ongoing social and cultural reality their work reflects and helps create. Beginning with James Cotton, Eddie Shaw, and other bequeathers, he moves through an all-star council of elders like Otis Rush and Buddy Guy and on to inheritors and today’s heirs apparent like Ronnie Baker Brooks, Shemekia Copeland, and Nellie “Tiger” Travis.
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Insightful and wide-ranging, Blues Legacy reveals a constantly adapting art form that, whatever the challenges, maintains its links to a rich musical past. DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. He is a past winner of the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Achievement in Journalism. He is the author of Southern Soul-Blues and Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories. PETER M. HURLEY is a photographer, muralist, graphic designer, and songwriter, and an active contributing photographer to Living Blues magazine.
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ROCKING THE CLOSET
How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
VINCENT L. STEPHENS Pushing boundaries with an all-star bill of hitmakers “Well-argued and thoughtful.” —ARTS FUSE
“This is culturally and historically informed scholarship of the highest order. Stephens seeks to question and complicate the established historical way of thinking and to provide a nuanced reading of queerness that admits the powerful possibilities of the ‘open secret’ in a pre-Liberation era when popular male musicians neither could nor necessarily desired to come out of the closet.” —THEO CATEFORIS, author of Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the turn of the 1980s
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The all-embracing, ”whaddya got?” nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music’s unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.
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Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace’s flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis’s intimate sensitivity while Ray’s overwrought displays as “Mr. Emotion” seemed worlds apart from Little Richard’s raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.
A volume in the series New Perspectives on Gender in Music, edited by Suzanne Cusick and Henry Spiller Publication of this book was supported by a grant from the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. All rights: University of Illinois
VINCENT L. STEPHENS is the director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity and a contributing faculty member in music at Dickinson College. He is a coeditor of Post Racial America? An Interdisciplinary Study.
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HOT FEET AND SOCIAL CHANGE
African Dance and Diaspora Communities
Edited by KARIAMU WELSH, ESAILAMA G. A. DIOUF, and YVONNE DANIEL Foreword by Thomas F. DeFrantz Preface by Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, and James Counts Early Indelible stories of living African dance within the African diaspora “Many of the authors are themselves the sources of both dance traditions created within the last decades and of significant studies about them. This work is unprecedented and, thanks to its insider perspectives, only possible as the editors have constructed it.” —SHEILA S. WALKER, editor of African Roots, American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas
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The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays explode myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, and community respect. These voices of experience share personal accounts of living African traditions, their first encounters with and ultimate embrace of dance, and what teaching African-based dance has meant to them and their communities. Throughout, the editors alert readers to established and ongoing research and provide links to critical contributions by African and Caribbean dance experts.
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Contributors: Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius, Yvonne Daniel, Charles “Chuck” Davis, Esailama G. A. Diouf, Indira Etwaroo, Habib Iddrisu, Julie B. Johnson, C. Kemal Nance, Halifu Osumare, Amaniyea Payne, William SerranoFranklin, and Kariamu Welsh
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KARIAMU WELSH is a professor emerita of dance at Temple University. Her books include Umfundalai: An African Dance Technique. ESAILAMA G. A. DIOUF is the founding director of Bisemi Foundation Inc. and the Arts and Culture Consultant at the San Francisco Foundation. YVONNE DANIEL is a professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Her books include Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé and Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship. www.press.uillinois.edu
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A GURU’S JOURNEY
Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora
SARAH MORELLI The work and art of a dance master in America “Morelli has crafted a narrative filled with powerful historical, biographical, and musical insights while also capturing the human dimensions of musical performance and transmission. An exciting contribution to the ethno musicological literature and a striking study of issues surrounding migration, ethnicity, and gender.” —KAY KAUFMAN SHELEMAY, author of Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World, third edition An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts.
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A Guru’s Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Das. Sarah Morelli, a kathak dancer and former Das student, investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States. In modifying kathak’s form and teaching for Western students, Das negotiates questions of Indianness and non-Indianness, gender, identity, and race. Morelli lays out these discussions for readers with the goal of deepening their knowledge of kathak aesthetics, technique, and theory. She also shares the intricacies of footwork, facial expression in storytelling, and other aspects of kathak while tying them to the cultural issues that inform the dance.
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SARAH MORELLI is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Denver and a performing kathak artist.
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JOSEPHINE BAKER AND KATHERINE DUNHAM
Dances in Literature and Cinema
HANNAH DURKIN Two great artists creating new visions of black womanhood “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-de-force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography, and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must-read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics.” —ALAN RICE, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic 272 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided vital insights into their artistic philosophies and choices. However, difficulties in accessing and categorizing their works on the screen and on the page have obscured their contributions to film and literature.
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Hannah Durkin investigates Baker’s and Dunham’s films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. Their trailblazing dancing and choreography reflected a belief that they could use film to confront racist assumptions while also imagining—within significant confines— new aesthetic possibilities for black women. Their writings, meanwhile, revealed their creative process, engagement with criticism, and the ways each mediated cultural constructions of black women’s identities. Durkin pays particular attention to the ways dancing bodies function as ever-changing signifiers and de-stabilizing transmitters of cultural identity. In addition, she offers an overdue appraisal of Baker’s and Dunham’s places in cinematic and literary history.
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HANNAH DURKIN is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora.
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ISLAND GOSPEL
Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States
MELVIN L. BUTLER A rare look at Jamaican Pentecostals and their music “Island Gospel is a much-needed and important contribution to Pentecostal studies and ethnomusicology. . . . The book offers insights that will be useful to scholars and students across a wide range of fields and disciplines.” —JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH
“The most extensive ethnographic study to date of Pentecostal music practices. The author’s perspective as a practicing believer and respected ethnomusicologist provides unprecedented access to the community and a deep understanding of Pentecostal traditions and discourses.” —JUDAH COHEN, author of Jewish Liturgical Music in Nineteenth-Century America
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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicates music’s place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.
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Melvin L. Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler’s ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music’s vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05176-0 A volume in the series African American Music in Global Perspective, edited by Portia K. Maultsby Publication of this book is supported by a grant from the Bruno Nettl Endowment for Ethnomusicology.
Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
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MELVIN L. BUTLER is an associate professor of musicology at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and a saxophonist with Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band and many other artists.
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GAMELAN GIRLS
Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles
SONJA LYNN DOWNING The girls and young women reshaping gamelan in Bali “Downing effectively grounds her main argument and supporting points through analysis of her rich ethnographic data. Not only am I convinced, but I felt like I was in Bali with her, meeting her consultants, hearing them speak, getting a sense of their personalities, and watching them grow and mature.” —CHRISTINA SUNARDI, author of Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance In recent years, girls’ and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children’s music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization of the arts taking place within debates over issues like women’s rights and cultural preservation.
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Sonja Lynn Downing draws on over a decade of immersive ethnographic work to analyze the ways Balinese musical practices have influenced the processes behind these dramatic changes. As Downing shows, girls and young women assert their agency within the gamelan learning process to challenge entrenched notions of performance and gender. One dramatic result is the creation of new combinations of femininity, musicality, and Balinese identity that resist messages about gendered behavior from the Indonesian nation-state and beyond. Such experimentation expands the accepted gender aesthetics of gamelan performance but also sparks new understanding of the role children can and do play in ongoing debates about identity and power.
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SONJA LYNN DOWNING is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Lawrence University.
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DANCING REVOLUTION
Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH Using dance as a political language to unite and resist “A respected musicologist and vernacular musician, Smith offers a sprawling overview of vernacular dance in the US as evidence of people’s ‘contesting, constructing, and reinventing social orders’. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE
“A very ambitious and impressive study. The breadth and scope of the book are remarkable. It is highly engaging and readable and expands our understanding of the potential of dance (and music/sound) to serve as a potent force for social engagement.” —JULIE MALNIG, editor of Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader
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Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Groups diverse in their cultural or political identities, or in both, long ago seized on street dancing, marches, open-air revival meetings, and theaters, as well as in dance halls and nightclubs, as a tool for contesting, constructing, or reinventing the social order.
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Dancing Revolution presents richly diverse case studies to illuminate these patterns of movement and influence in movement and sound in the history of American public life. Christopher J. Smith spans centuries, geographies, and cultural identities as he delves into a wide range of historical moments. These include the Godintoxicated public demonstrations of Shakers and Ghost Dancers in the First and Second Great Awakenings; creolized antebellum dance in cities from New Orleans to Bristol; the modernism and racial integration that imbued twentieth-century African American popular dance; the revolutionary connotations behind images of dance from Josephine Baker to the Marx Brothers; and public movement’s contributions to hip hop, antihegemonic protest, and other contemporary transgressive communities’ physical expressions of dissent and solidarity.
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Multidisciplinary and wide-ranging, Dancing Revolution examines how Americans turned the rhythms of history into the movement behind the movements. CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH is a professor, chair of musicology, and founding director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. He is the author of the award-winning book The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy. www.press.uillinois.edu
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CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITIES Music, Media, Language, Advocacy
Edited by TIMOTHY J. COOLEY Foreword by Jeff Todd Titon A daring interdisciplinary journey into the nexus of the humanities and ecological science “Written to introduce the reader to the universal practice of ‘musicking’ and the influence of real-time environmental upheaval on its conception and performance, and the physical and technological systems that support and maintain its integrity, the scope and scale of the literature illuminates the immense challenges of survival in a time of climatic upheaval.” —ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
“Cultural Sustainabilities is a must-read for those interested in ecomusicology and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars in the environmental humanities writ large. . . . Students encountering Cultural Sustainabilities will be inspired to explore, advocate, and create a more equitable and pleasurable ‘sound commons.’ ” —MARK PEDELTY, author of A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism
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Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Timothy J. Cooley presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and even celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the Anthropocene.
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Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J. Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux, Burt Feintuch, Nancy Guy, Mary Hufford, Susan Hurley-Glowa, Patrick Hutchinson, Michelle Kisliuk, Pauleena M. MacDougall, Margarita Mazo, Dotan Nitzberg, Jennifer C. Post, Tom Rankin, Roshan Samtani, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jeff Todd Titon, Joshua Tucker, Rory Turner, Denise Von Glahn, and Thomas Walker
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TIMOTHY J. COOLEY is a professor of music and global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Surfing about Music and Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians.
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LIVING ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Paths and Practices
MARGARET SARKISSIAN and TED SOLÍS Foreword by Bruno Nettl Afterthoughts by Mark Slobin The first-ever ethnography of the discipline “Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices is ultimately an interesting and unique contribution to the discipline.” —JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH
“This is a brilliant and original idea for a volume. The book focuses on nearly all aspects of the field, including most of the possible careers. As such, it is extraordinary and makes conclusive statements about what ethnomusicology is and who ethnomusicologists are.” —DAVID HARNISH, author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival
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Ethnomusicologists have journeyed from Bali to Morocco to the depths of Amazonia to chronicle humanity’s relationship with music. Margaret Sarkissian and Ted Solís guide us into the field’s last great undiscovered country: ethnomusicology itself. Drawing on fieldwork based on person-to-person interaction, the authors provide a first-ever ethnography of the discipline. The unique collaborations produce an ambitious exploration of ethnomusicology’s formation, evolution, practice, and unique identity. In particular, the subjects discuss their early lives and influences and trace their varied career trajectories. They also draw on their own experiences to offer reflections on all aspects of the field. Pursuing practitioners not only from diverse backgrounds and specialties but from different eras, Sarkissian and Solís illuminate the many trails ethnomusicologists have blazed in the pursuit of knowledge.
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A bountiful resource on history and practice, Living Ethnomusicology is an enlightening intellectual exploration of an exotic academic culture.
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MARGARET SARKISSIAN is a professor of music at Smith College. She is the author of D’Albuquerque’s Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia’s Portuguese Settlement. TED SOLÍS is a professor of music at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Musics.
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Women Performers and World Religions
SARAH WEISS Representing women’s traditions and re-envisioning comparative practices “As I read along, I found myself smiling and nodding at the text’s cleverness and its validating evidence for women’s agency in the performance of scandalous ‘soundings’ of protest and dissent. This is a fascinating, well-written, and extraordinarily well-researched book.” —ELLEN KOSKOFF, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender
“This study is a treasure trove of marriage-rituals that women perform within the context of the world religion they are affiliated to. It is a pleasure to savour the presentation of their variety.” —RELIGION AND GENDER 198 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 1 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, 1 TABLE
The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at Moroccan weddings. Around the world, women actively claim agency through performance during such ritual events. These moments, though brief, allow them a rare freedom to move beyond culturally determined boundaries.
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In Ritual Soundings, Sarah Weiss reads deeply into and across the ethnographic details of multiple studies while offering a robust framework for studying music and world religion. Her meta-ethnography reveals surprising patterns of similarity between unrelated cultures. Deftly blending ethnomusicology, the study of gender in religion, and sacred music studies, she invites ethnomusicologists back into comparative work, offering them encouragement to think across disciplinary boundaries. As Weiss delves into a number of less-studied rituals, she offers a forceful narrative of how women assert agency within institutional religious structures while remaining faithful to the local cultural practices the rituals represent.
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SARAH WEISS is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Kunst Universität Graz). She is the author of Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java.
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RETHINKING AMERICAN MUSIC Edited by TARA BROWNER and THOMAS L. RIIS Eclectic topics, cutting-edge research, and America’s musical heritage “Rethinking American Music demonstrates the diversity of current scholarship on American music culture.” —CHOICE
“A marvelous compendium of scholarship in American music, this book illustrates the wondrous diversity of American musical culture from the eighteenth century to today. Essays on classical, sacred, popular, jazz, hip hop, and theatrical styles deal with performance, patronage, identity, and ethnography and illustrate wonderfully the breadth of Richard Crawford’s enormous legacy in the field of Americanist music studies.” —KATHERINE K. PRESTON, author of Opera for the People: EnglishLanguage Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America
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In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L. Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship. Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage’s role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal identity; and the ways cultural and ethnographic circumstances determine the music that emerges from the creative process. Many of the articles also look at how a piece of music becomes initially popular and then exerts a lasting influence in the larger global culture. The result is an insightful state-of-the-field examination that doubles as an engaging short course on our complex, multifaceted musical heritage.
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Contributors: Karen Ahlquist, Amy C. Beal, Mark Clague, Esther R. Crookshank, Todd Decker, Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Joshua S. Duchan, Mark Katz, Jeffrey Magee, Sterling E. Murray, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., David Warren Steel, Jeffrey Taylor, and Mark Tucker
Publication of this book is supported by the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
TARA BROWNER is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance in the Northern Pow-Wow. THOMAS L. RIIS is Professor of Music Emeritus and former director of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Frank Loesser.
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MORMONS, MUSICAL THEATER, AND BELONGING IN AMERICA JAKE JOHNSON Using others’ voices to bring one closer to God “Through careful historiography and close attention to sound, Johnson expertly maps the intersections of voice studies, Mormon doctrine, race and religion, and the worlds of American musical theater. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America convinces us that theology, theatricality, nationality, and vocality are entwined in Mormonism and extend in fascinating ways into American popular culture.” —JEFFERS ENGELHARDT, author of Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia 222 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 5 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 12 MUSIC EXAMPLES
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.
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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.
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JAKE JOHNSON is an assistant professor of musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.
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DIXIE DEWDROP
The Uncle Dave Macon Story
MICHAEL D. DOUBLER From Tennessee earth to hillbilly heaven with the grandfather of country music “An eminently readable chronicle.” —RAMBLES.NET
“Michael D. Doubler has given us a rich and highly nuanced portrait of the complex, highly gifted man who helped put country music on the map. As Macon’s great-grandson, Doubler was able to draw on family archives and reminiscences that might otherwise be unavailable, and his excellent writing skills have allowed him to weave this material together into a compelling and entertaining narrative.” —JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH 288 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 36 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 CHARTS
One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry’s first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America’s most beloved entertainers.
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Michael D. Doubler tells the amazing story of the Dixie Dewdrop, a country music icon. Born in 1870, David Harrison Macon learned the banjo from musicians passing through his parents’ Nashville hotel. After playing local shows in Middle Tennessee for decades, a big break led Macon to vaudeville, the earliest of his 200-plus recordings and eventually to national stardom. Uncle Dave—clad in his trademark plug hat and gates-ajar collar—soon became the face of the Opry itself with his spirited singing, humor, and array of banjo picking styles. For the rest of his life, he defied age to tour and record prolifically, manage his business affairs, mentor up-and-comers like David “Stringbean” Akeman, and play with the Delmore Brothers, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe.
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MICHAEL D. DOUBLER is the great-grandson of Uncle Dave Macon. His books include Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945 and Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636–2000.
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BILL MONROE
The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
TOM EWING From cradle to great, a chronicle of Bill Monroe’s epic life “Insightful . . . [Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man] presents bluegrass history as it happened, as well as a fresh look at ‘this extraordinary individual.’” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
“This account bears witness to the gigantic achievement which was Bill Monroe’s music. His energy and creativity knew no bounds. This book successfully captures that.” —JIM ROONEY, Grammy-winning record producer and author of In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years, a member of the Country Music and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame, and a legendary figure in American music. This authoritative biography sets out to examine his life in careful detail—to move beyond hearsay and sensationalism to explain how and why he accomplished so much.
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Former Blue Grass Boy and veteran music journalist Tom Ewing draws on hundreds of interviews, his personal relationship with Monroe, and an immense personal archive of materials to separate the truth from longstanding myth. Ewing tells the story of the Monroe family’s musical household and Bill’s early career in the Monroe Brothers duo. He brings to life Monroe’s 1940s heyday with the Classic Bluegrass Band, the renewed fervor for his music sparked by the folk revival of the 1960s, and his declining fortunes in the years that followed. Throughout, Ewing deftly captures Monroe’s relationships and the personalities of an ever-shifting roster of band members while shedding light on his business dealings and his pioneering work with Bean Blossom and other music festivals.
A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book is supported by the Otto Kinkeldey Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.
Filled with a wealth of previously unknown details, Bill Monroe offers even the most devoted fan a deeper understanding of Monroe’s towering achievements and timeless music.
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TOM EWING was guitarist/lead singer of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys for ten years. He is the editor of The Bill Monroe Reader and wrote the “Thirty Years Ago This Month” column for Bluegrass Unlimited.
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VOICES OF DROUGHT
The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil
MICHAEL B. SILVERS How an environment creates popular music, and vice versa “This unique and timely work offers an important contribution to our understanding of how music and ecology are linked.” —JENNIFER C. POST, editor of Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devastating droughts. These crises have a profound impact on social difference and stratification, and thus on forró music in the sertão (backlands) of the region. At the same time, the complex interactions of popular music and social conditions also help create the environment.
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Silvers offers case studies focused on the sertão that range from the Brazilian wax harvested in Ceará for use in early wax cylinder sound recordings to the droughtand austerity-related cancellation of Carnival celebrations in 2014–16. Unearthing links between music and the environmental and social costs of drought, his daring synthesis explores ecological exile, poverty, and unequal access to water resources alongside issues like corruption, prejudice, unbridled capitalism, and expanding neoliberalism.
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MICHAEL B. SILVERS is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Publication of this book is supported by the Dragan Plamenac Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by a grant from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Fine and Applied Arts. All rights: University of Illinois
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BLUEGRASS GENERATION
A Memoir
NEIL V. ROSENBERG Foreword by Gregory N. Reish Bean Blossom, banjos, and bluegrass becoming bluegrass “Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir is highly recommended to all students of bluegrass, but especially anyone who has fond memories of the Bean Blossom Festivals in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.” —BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN
“An ode to a time and a place when college kids and country folks bonded over a love of bluegrass.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg’s subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music.
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Rosenberg’s memoir shines a light on the changing bluegrass scene of the early 1960s. Already a fan and aspiring musician, his appetite for banjo music quickly put him on the Jamboree stage. Rosenberg eventually played with Monroe and spent four months managing the Jamboree. Those heights gave him an eyewitness view of nothing less than bluegrass’s emergence from the shadow of country music into its own distinct art form. As the likes of Bill Keith and Del McCoury played, Rosenberg watched Monroe begin to share a personal link to the music that tied audiences to its history and his life—and helped turn him into bluegrass’s foundational figure.
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An intimate look at a transformative time, Bluegrass Generation tells the inside story of how an American musical tradition came to be. NEIL V. ROSENBERG is professor emeritus of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of Bluegrass: A History and coauthor of Bluegrass Odyssey and The Music of Bill Monroe.
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LOS ROMEROS
Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar
WALTER AARON CLARK The fascinante biography of a musical dynasty “For the protraction of my musical education and the great pleasure of their company, I am truly grateful to the family Romero.” —SIR NEVILLE MARRINER, from the foreword
“To see Los Romeros play is to witness them making love to an instrument that, in their hands, is transformed into the most beautiful human voice.” —JESÚS LÓPEZ COBOS, from the foreword Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family—Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito— have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States.
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Walter Aaron Clark’s in-depth research and unprecedented access to his subjects have produced the consummate biography of the Romero family. Clark examines the full story of their genius for making music, from their outsider’s struggle to gain respect for the Spanish guitar to the ins and outs of making a living as musicians. As he shows, their concerts and recordings, behind-the-scenes musical careers, and teaching have reshaped their instrument’s very history. At the same time, the Romeros have organized festivals and encouraged leading composers to write works for guitar as part of a tireless, lifelong effort to promote the instrument and expand its repertoire.
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Entertaining and intimate, Los Romeros opens up the personal world and unfettered artistry of one family and its tremendous influence on American musical culture.
Publication of this book is supported by the Donna Cardamone Jackson Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the University of California, Riverside.
WALTER AARON CLARK is Distinguished Professor of Musicology and the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic and Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano. In 2016, King Felipe VI of Spain made him a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.
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BLACK OPERA
History, Power, Engagement
NAOMI ANDRÉ A musical challenge to our view of the past “A necessary exploration of how race has shaped the opera landscape in the United States and South Africa.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“This wide-ranging and—in a positive sense—provocative study . . . should interest anyone concerned with teaching and studying the shifting functions of opera in an even more shifting world.” —OPERA NEWS From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people’s place in history.
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Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music’s resonance with today’s listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate.
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Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship. NAOMI ANDRÉ is a professor in the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program, and the departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-NineteenthCentury Italian Opera and coeditor of Blackness in Opera.
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EXPANDED SECOND EDITION
PIONEERS OF THE BLUES REVIVAL STEVE CUSHING Introduction by Barry Lee Pearson An updated edition of the acclaimed collection with new, rare interviews “The two additional pieces in Pioneers of the Blues Revival requires anybody who was at all taken by the first edition to buy the second edition. The pieces on McCormick and Garon are that essential for the book’s completeness.” —ROBERT PRUTER, Real Blues Forum Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. 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. Rare interview material with experts like Mack McCormick supplements dialogues with Paul Garon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Paul Oliver, Sam Charters, and others in renewing lively debates and providing first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Throughout, the participants chronicle lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They also recount relationships with essential blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White—connections that allowed the two races to learn how to talk to each other in a still-segregated world.
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STEVE CUSHING has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for over thirty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. BARRY LEE PEARSON is a professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers.
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SPIRITUALS AND THE BIRTH OF A BLACK ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SANDRA JEAN GRAHAM Showbiz shaping sacred song’s success “A pleasure to read, the book weaves meticulous research into an engaging narrative that vividly enriches understanding of postbellum American music and theater. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE
“[A] one-of-a-kind title . . . Many volumes address spirituals themselves, but few detail the actual exponents of this important African American tradition in such a refreshingly disarming way.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL 360 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 22 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 CHARTS, 38 MUSIC EXAMPLES, 5 TABLES, 3 FIGURES
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post–Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies.
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In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual’s journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they laid the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century.
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SANDRA JEAN GRAHAM is an associate professor of music at Babson College.
Publication of this book is supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the Babson Faculty Research Fund.
A Choice Outstanding Title, 2018 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society, 2019
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RIGHT TO THE JUKE JOINT
A Personal History of American Music
PATRICK B. MULLEN Notes from a lifetime loving American music “[Mullen’s] book is well-written, insightful, and highly recommended for anyone who has found bliss through music.” —JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
“Right to the Juke Joint is an evocative journey through music that tracks the life of its author—Patrick Mullen— from his childhood to the present. Mullen’s enduring love for music inspired his life as a folklorist. Beginning with Ray Charles’s ‘I Got a Woman,’ he moves the reader from blues, rock and roll, and rockabilly in the Fifties to jazz, country, and Tex-Mex voices. As one musician told Mullen, ‘There ain’t but one race created on earth, and that’s the human race.’ Right to the Juke Joint eloquently shows how music reveals our shared humanity.” —WILLIAM FERRIS, author of The South in Color: A Visual Journal 244 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES
The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilized/native idea, meanwhile, helped develop Mullen’s critical perspective, guide his love of music, and steer his life’s work.
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Part scholar’s musings and part fan’s memoir, Right to the Juke Joint follows Mullen from his early embrace of country and folk to the full flowering of an idiosyncratic, omnivorous interest in music. Personal memory merges with a lifetime of fieldwork in folklore and anthropology to provide readers with a deeply informed analysis of American roots music. Mullen opens up on the world of ideas and his own tireless fandom to explore how his cultural identity—and ours—relates to concepts like authenticity and “folkness.” The result is a charming musical map drawn by a gifted storyteller whose boots have traveled a thousand tuneful roads.
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PATRICK B. MULLEN is professor emeritus of English and folklore at The Ohio State University. His books include The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore and Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly.
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BANJO ROOTS AND BRANCHES Edited by ROBERT B. WINANS West African precursors, African-Caribbean origins, North American journeys “An excellent book with plenty of material for both specialist and casual readers.” —GALPIN SOCIETY JOURNAL
“Roots and Branches collects an extraordinary amount of research into the ongoing discovery of the banjo’s Byzantine history. . . . Each essay speaks directly to all others, lending the book an unusual level of cohesion for an edited volume.” —WORLD OF MUSIC 344 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 20 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS 22 MUSIC EXAMPLES, 11 TABLES
The story of the banjo’s journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument’s West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo’s introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus.
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Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.
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Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Publication of this book was made possible in part through a donation from the Uncle Shlomo’s Brooklyn Kids Fund for Music, dedicated to ensuring that Shlomo Pestcoe’s generous spirit will continue to enrich us with the music he so loved to share, and by a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.
ROBERT B. WINANS is a professor emeritus of American literature and folklore at Gettysburg College.
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