University of Illinois Press Fall 2009 Music Book Catalog

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AMERICAN COMPOSERS SERIES

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STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY AND LITERATURE

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CLASSICAL

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BLUES, GOSPEL, ROCK, AND JAZZ

10 BLUEGRASS AND COUNTRY 12 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND FOLK MUSIC 18 DANCE 19 JOURNALS

George Gershwin An Intimate Portrait

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WALTER RIMLER

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“A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself might have written. Rimler gives us a fuller, more complex, more humorous, and more vulnerable picture of Gershwin than has yet appeared in print.”

—Philip Furia, coauthor of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists

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“A hugely enjoyable read, this neat, polished package is a skillful condensation of the vast literature on Gershwin but also offers a new critical angle on the composer’s achievement.”—Stephen Banfield, author of Jerome Kern

University of Illinois Press

George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself—no family of his own and no real home in music. In this book, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh sources, including newly discovered letters by Kay Swift as well as correspondence between and interviews with intimates of Ira and Leonore Gershwin. It is written with spirited prose and contains more than two dozen photos.

1325 S. Oak Street

2009. 240 pp. 33 black & white photos 1 Cloth 978-0-252-03444-2 . $29.95

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Music in American Life

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Serving Genius Carlo Maria Giulini THOMAS D. SALER

Tells the story of Carlo Maria Giulini, one of the most renowned and beloved conductors of the 20th century, by drawing upon firsthand accounts of those with whom Giulini associated, including musicians, administrators, journalists and friends.

2010. 264 pp. 6 x 9. 21 black & white photos.

145 Cloth 978-0-252-03502-9. $34.95

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I Feel a Song Coming On

Creative Life

The Life of Jimmy McHugh

Music, Politics, People, and Machines

ALYN SHIPTON

BOB OSTERTAG

“This valuable work includes numerous insights into the slightly mysterious process of pop song-writing and the music business in general. It will appeal to Tin Pan Alley music aficionados, American studies specialists, Hollywood historians, and music fans in general.”—Thomas L. Riis, author of Frank Loesser

“Ostertag ‘comes out’ again, here in a brilliant social and political memoir smack-dab in the middle of yet another musical revolution. A must read!”—Alvin Curran, musician and composer, Musica Elettronica Viva

This first biography of Jimmy McHugh captures a lively and significant contributor to American songwriting. Creator of favorite tunes such as “I’m in the Mood for Love” and “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” McHugh was a one-man history of twentieth-century popular music.

2009. 288 pp. 24 black & white photos 2 Cloth 978-0-252-03465-7 $35.00

“Few chronicles of the lives of late-twentieth-century American composers or improvisers exist, and even fewer first-person narratives exist in which the composer takes the time to critically examine his or her life practice. Bob Ostertag’s brand of politics, however, demands that he do just that.”—George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music 2009. 208 pp. 25 black & white photos 5 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03451-0 $65.00 6 Paper 978-0-252-07646-6 $20.00

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Cafe Society

Five Lines, Four Spaces

The Wrong Place for the Right People BARNEY JOSEPHSON WITH TERRY TRILLING-JOSEPHSON

The World of My Music

Foreword by Dan Morgenstern

Edited by Gene Rochberg and Richard Griscom.

Introduction by Gene Rochberg.

GEORGE ROCHBERG

“I wanted a club where blacks and whites worked together behind the footlights and sat together out front.

There wasn’t, so far as I know, a place like it in New York or in the country.”—Barney Josephson “This highly entertaining and historically informative book will bring a lump to the throat of those who attended the jazz and comedy performances at Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown, and warm appreciation from those who learn about Barney Josephson’s contribution to the success of some of the world’s greatest jazz entertainers.”—Carl Reiner 2009. 456 pp. 75 black & white photos 3 Cloth 978-0-252-03413-8 $32.95

“One of the most significant composers of the twentieth century, George Rochberg was not only an important musical voice but also a critic and philosopher whose personal ideas and convictions shook the musical world to its core. This book brings us into the mind of a great composer, and that alone is worth the entire book in its verity and truth.”—George Boziwick, composer and chief of the music division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2009. 336 pp. 24 black & white photos, 4 line drawings 7 Cloth 978-0-252-03425-1 $40.00

From Spirituals to Symphonies

Music in American Life

African-American Women Composers and Their Music

California Polyphony

HELEN WALKER-HILL

Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads MINA YANG

“Mina Yang offers a musical message of social hope without stepping back from fierce historical inequities.

She shows how the meeting grounds and collisions marking California’s racial landscape add up to far more than accidents. California Polyphony will sit on my bookshelf between Mike Davis’s City of Quartz and George Lipsitz’s Dangerous Crossroads.”—Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music

“This excellent and beautifully produced publication will immediately interest those working in music history and women’s studies. It is an exemplary study of significant composers born between 1904 and 1956. . . .

Essential.”—Choice “An excellent starting point for research by future scholars.”—Journal of African American History 2007 432 pp. 25 black & white photos 47 Paper 978-0-252-07454-7 $25.00

2008. 208 pp. 9 black & white photos 4 Cloth 978-0-252-03243-1 $40.00

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“Maximum Clarity” and Other Writings on Music

When Frankie Went to Hollywood

BEN JOHNSTON

KAREN MCNALLY

Edited by Bob Gilmore

Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).

“Johnston’s contributions are monumental, and this collection illustrates why. Not only are the theoretical writings extremely useful for scholars, composers, and performers who want to understand just intonation, but the spiritual aspects of Johnston’s writings and Gilmore’s explanations are inspiring for all readers.”—Heidi Von Gunden, associate professor, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2006. 328 pp. 1 black & white photo, 41 line drawings 8 Cloth 978-0-252-03098-7 $40.00

Music in American Life

Charles Ives Reconsidered GAYLE SHERWOOD MAGEE

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity “The most thorough and nuanced account of Sinatra’s postwar persona that I have ever read. When Frankie Went to Hollywood will take its place among the very best books on a performer whose life and career continue to exert considerable interest and fascination.”—Steve Neale, author of Genre and Hollywood “McNally’s study . . . has an unexpected share of gossip and biographical surprises. . . . An exploration of Sinatra’s forthright ethnicity, his strident championing of civil rights and his sexual objectification.”—Times Literary Supplement 2008. 248 pp. 10 black & white photos 146 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03334-6 $65.00 147 Paper 978-0-252-07542-1 $24.95

Tales of a Theatrical Guru DANNY NEWMAN Foreword by Studs Terkel

“At once assiduously researched and passionately engaged, Gayle Sherwood Magee’s book clears away many of the hoary myths that have long surrounded Charles Ives. What emerges is a picture not of an isolated visionary but of an artist keenly and cannily aware of the currents of his time, both musical and political. The man himself roars off the page—proud, prickly, contradictory, more than a little troubled, but moving implacably toward a towering musical goal.”—Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

“Many of the events that are now ‘legendary’ in American operatic life are precisely that because Danny Newman knew an opportunity when he saw it and craftily arranged for photoers and journalists to be around at the right time. This book explains what was going through Mr. Newman’s mind as he supervised the press coverage of, for example, Luciano Pavarotti’s dismissal from the Lyric Opera and Maria Callas’ being served with a subpoena backstage.”—James Wierzbicki, associate professor of musicology, University of Michigan

2008. 256 pp. 34 black & white photos 9 Cloth 978-0-252-03326-1 $35.00

“Many books are published just for their entertainment value. Others exist for their importance as historical documents. Tales of Theatrical Guru is both.”—Daily Herald

Music in American Life

2006. 312 pp. 55 black & white photos 148 Cloth 978-0-252-03164-9 $29.95

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Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

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VIRGINIA WARING

Body and Soul

Foreword by Robert Shaw

Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63

2007 464 pp. 73 black & white photos, 6 line drawings 10 Paper 978-0-252-07444-8 $29.95

PETER STANFIELD

Music in American Life

Bound for America

“[An] absorbing and convincing account of white America’s fraught, imitative, fascinated, repressive and denial-ridden relationship with black culture.”—The Wire

“The value of Bound for America, not only as a work of first-rate scholarship but as ‘a good read’ is clear. Nicholas Temperley is to be congratulated.”—Music & Letters

“Body and Soul is [Stanfield’s] incisive report back from the field of Hollywood films–melodramas, crime films, musicals, comedies–that use, sometimes centrally but more often in crucial but taken-for-granted ways, jazz and blues-inflected music to figure and probe American identity.”—Film Quarterly

2008. 256 pp. 6 x 9. 21 black & white photographs, 14 tables.

143 Paper 978-0-252-07595-7. $25.00

2005 232 pp. 16 black & white photos 149 Paper 978-0-252-07235-2 $20.00

Three British Composers NICHOLAS TEMPERLEY

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AMERICAN COMPOSERS SERIES

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VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

William Grant Still

AMERICAN COMPOSERS

CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH

John Cage

“This book will be the standard work on William Grant Still for at least twenty years. Smith provides a brilliant narrative of Still’s active career, his cooperation with Carl Van Vechten, and his prestige as an American composer.

A useful introduction to Still’s life, career, music, and sociological importance.”—Wayne D. Shirley, emeritus senior music specialist, Library of Congress

DAVID NICHOLLS

“Sheds a valuable beam of light on the composer, cutting through the obfuscation that has settled around him. . . .

A very fine book.” —The Wire “Impeccably researched and well-written, the author imparts the meaningfulness of the music as well as the writings of Cage, demonstrating his impact on the performance, perception, and conception of music.”—Notes “Offers a meticulously researched and beautifully crafted narrative that lays equal emphasis on Cage’s personal and professional development.”—Times Literary Supplement 2007. 160 pp. 13 black & white photos, 2 tables 11 Cloth 978-0-252-03215-8 $35.00

Dudley Buck N. LEE ORR

“An insightful, readable, musically informed, and sympathetic portrait of a major American composer for a contemporary audience.”—Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered

2008. 136 pp. 15 black & white photos 14 Cloth 978-0-252-03322-3 $37.00

Rudolf Friml WILLIAM EVERETT

“William Everett’s lucid and thorough exploration of the life and music of Rudolf Friml places this important Czech-American composer squarely at the forefront of twentieth-century music theater, where he properly belongs. What a delight that this long-overdue volume is also so entertaining and informative. The scholarship is, in a word, sensational. Kudos to Everett for his timely, important and indispensable addition to our American musical history.”—Sara Davis Buechner, concert pianist and recording artist, Piano Music of Rudolf Friml on Koch International

“Will prove invaluable to anyone interested in organ music, choral music, and the history of composition and performance in nineteenth-century America.”—R. Allen Lott, author of From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland

2008. 152 pp. 14 black & white photos 15 Cloth 978-0-252-03381-0 $35.00

2008. 176 pp. 14 black & white photos 12 Cloth 978-0-252-03279-0 $45.00

INAUGURAL VOLUME

Lou Harrison

PIRKKO MOISALA

LETA E. MILLER AND FREDRIC LIEBERMAN

“A foundational resource for anyone seeking an understanding of Saariaho’s music.

It is a stimulant to the imagination and the creative spirit.”

—Linda Dusman, composer, sound artist, and chair of the department of music, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2006. 168 pp. 16 black & white photos, 6 tables 13 Cloth 978-0-252-03120-5 $40.00

WOMEN COMPOSERS Kaija Saariaho

Music’s inclusivity—its potential to unite cultures, disciplines, and individuals—defined the life and career of Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Though Harrison was sometimes accused by contemporaries of “cultural appropriation,” Miller and Lieberman’s brisk study makes it clear why he is now lauded as an imaginative pioneer for his integration of Asian and Western musics, as well as.

Harrison’s compositions are examined in detail through reference to an accompanying CD of representative recordings.

“The ideal introduction to the composer and his music.”—Music and Letters

ANNOUNCING THE SERIES

“A significant contribution. An in-depth study of the life and music of a critically acclaimed yet controversial composer who is redefining the boundaries between music and noise.”—Ellen K. Grolman, author of Joan Tower: The Comprehensive Bio-Bibliography Women Composers 2009. 144 pp. 9 black & white photos, 4 maps 16 Cloth 978-0-252-03277-6 $40.00

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VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY AND LITERATURE SERIES EDITOR: THOMAS J. MATHIESEN

Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s Plana musica and Musica speculativa

Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

NEW CRITICAL TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, ANNOTATIONS, AND INDICES BY JAN HERLINGER

CLAUDE V. PALISCA EDITED BY THOMAS J. MATHIESEN

“Herlinger knows more about this theorist and his context than any other scholar, and this book continues his excellent previous editions and translations of medieval music treatises. The quality of Herlinger’s work is high throughout.”—Margaret Bent, senior research fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award

“Prosdocimo’s writings deserve to be better known, not only to music theorists, but to scholars in all of the fields in which he was active. This edition is a valuable contribution to that objective.”—Renaissance Quarterly 2008. 336 pp. 2 black & white photos 17 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03259-2 $40.00

Gallus Dressler’s Praecepta musicae poeticae NEW CRITICAL TEXT, TRANSLATION, ANNOTATIONS, AND INDICES BY ROBERT FORGÁCS

“Forgács’s description of the Dressler manuscript is excellent. The argument for the evidence of four hands is quite convincing, as is his suggestion that one hand is Dressler’s. This edition also corrects many of Trachier’s readings and deciphers more of the text in some troublesome spots, while providing an extensive explanation of the relationship of Dressler’s treatise with those of other theorists, especially to classical sources and the humanist tradition.”—Oliver Ellsworth, professor emeritus of musicology, University of Colorado, Boulder “Forgacs skillfully deciphers numerous puzzles unsolved by previous scholars. . . . A solid addition to the available scholarship on Renaissance music theory. Forgacs’s careful analysis and expert interpretation of Dressler’s text deserve enthusiastic praise.”—Renaissance Quarterly 2007. 240 pp. 5 black & white photos, 2 tables 18 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03244-8 $45.00

“Engagingly written for non-specialists (and even nonmusicians), yet invaluable for the expert, this remarkable book is both the final summation of a lifetime’s distinguished scholarship by the acknowledged master in the field and a stimulating, thorough and authoritative introduction to nearly every aspect of a lively and complex cultural and intellectual milieu of great historical significance: the musical world of the Renaissance and early Baroque, when the rediscovery of classical antiquity helped transmute the medieval into the modern.

A profoundly generous legacy by a master scholar and teacher.”—David E. Cohen, Columbia University “Palisca’s book is engaging reading for those who already know the subject, accessible to interested non-specialists, and indispensable for students. At a reasonable price, even in cloth, it deserves to make its way quickly into many classrooms and personal libraries.”

—Music and Letters 2006. 312 pp. 4 line drawings, 6 tables 19 Cloth 978-0-252-03156-4 $35.00

BEETHOVEN SKETCHBOOK SERIES The String Quartets of Beethoven EDITED BY WILLIAM KINDERMAN

“Kinderman brings together essays that will please historians, critics, and music theorists. This impressive volume is important . . . to how we understand Beethoven’s music in general.” —Christopher Reynolds, professor of music, University of California, Davis 2006. 360 pp. 282 line drawings, 8 tables 28 Cloth 978-0-252-03036-9 . $75.00

John Dygon’s Proportiones practicabiles secundum Gaffurium

Artaria 195

NEW CRITICAL TEXT, TRANSLATION, ANNOTATIONS, AND INDICES BY THEODOR DUMITRESCU

Beethoven’s Sketchbook for the Missa solemnis and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109

“Theodor Dumitrescu’s study, edition, and translation of Dygon’s works is exemplary in every respect. . . . The book sheds light on aspects of English musical culture that go well beyond the specific topics covered in the treatises and provides valuable insights into musical relations between England and the continent in the early decades of the sixteenth century.”—Renaissance Quarterly 2006. 208 pp. 2 black & white photos 20 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03182-3 $35.00

Volume 1, Commentary; Volume 2, Facsimile; Volume 3, Transcription

TRANSCRIBED, EDITED, AND WITH A COMMENTARY BY WILLIAM KINDERMAN

“Kinderman’s passionate articulation of [this monumental project’s] goals, his imaginative and bold invitation to a new generation of scholars on its behalf, and finally the deed itself . . . represent our current best hope for its eventual realization.”—Beethoven Forum 2003. 384 pp, 3 vol. 123 black & white photos, 122 line drawings 29 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-02749-9. $250.00

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About Bach

Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet

EDITED BY GREGORY G. BUTLER, GEORGE B. STAUFFER, AND MARY DALTON GREER

KENNETH MORGAN

“The authors of this volume advance the leading edge of musical scholarship through their knowledgeable studies of Bach and his period. Scholars around the world will want to read this.”—Stephen A. Crist, editor of Bach Perspectives, Volume 5: Bach in America “This is a significant collection of essays, first-rate in terms of scholarship and the new perspectives they bring to known issues, as well as in their introduction of new facets of study.”—Robin A. Leaver, author of Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications 2008. 232 pp. 12 black & white photos 21 Cloth 978-0-252-03344-5 . $30.00

Recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor award in the classical music category “Lively, polished, and succinct. . . . Through impeccable research and revealing interviews, Morgan offers unprecedented insights into those distinctive characteristics that made Reiner one of the greatest conductors of all time. Especially welcome is his detailed discussion of the famous legacy of recordings that keeps Reiner’s memory alive, even to those too young to have heard him in concert.”—Steven Hillyer, editor of Podium 2005. 360 pp. 33 black & white photos 25 Cloth 978-0-252-02935-6. $34.95 150 2010. Paper 978-0-252-07730-2. $24.95

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Bach Perspectives, Volume 7 J. S. Bach’s Concerted Ensemble Music, The Concerto

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas

EDITED BY GREGORY BUTLER

EDITED BY LEWIS LOCKWOOD AND MARK KROLL

“A daring view not only of the origins of the E Major Harpsichord Concerto, but of Bach’s methods of assembling his concertos and reworking their individual movements.”—Music and Letters

“The success with which the collection presents sophisticated perspectives in straightforward prose provides a strong argument for the continued importance of the history, criticism, and performance of Beethoven’s violin sonatas today.”—Notes

History, Criticism, Performance

2007. 136 pp. 6 tables.

22 Cloth 978-0-252-03165-6. $60.00

2004. 176 pp. 13 line drawings, 13 tables 27 Cloth 978-0-252-02932-5 . $45.00

Bach Perspectives, Volume 6 J. S. Bach’s Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture

Ancient Rome in Early Opera

EDITED BY GREGORY BUTLER

”This work is a welcome addition to our understanding of opera’s rich musical tradition. Robert C. Ketterer is a rare classicist who also knows his way, musically and historically, in the world of baroque opera.”—R. J. Tarrant, editor of the Oxford Classical Texts edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

ROBERT C. KETTERER

2007. 176 pp. 4 black & white photos, 12 tables 23 Cloth 978-0-252-03042-0. $50.00

Bach Perspectives, Volume 5 Bach in America EDITED BY STEPHEN A. CRIST 2003. 248 pp. 14 black & white photos, 17 line drawings, 12 tables 24 Cloth 978-0-252-02788-8 . $45.00

272 pp. 6 x 9. 7 black & white photos. 2008.

144 Cloth 978-0-252-03378-0. $40.00

AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Mysterious Mozart PHILIPPE SOLLERS Translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer

As Le Figaro noted in its review of this book, Mozart is everywhere: concert halls, film scores, department stores, and elevators. In Mysterious Mozart Philippe Sollers investigates why Mozart’s music has been so widely appropriated, why public perceptions of Mozart emphasize his lightness, and why Mozart himself has been treated as a child prodigy who never quite grew up.

2010. 176 pp.

26 Cloth 978-0-252-03546-3. $40.00

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BLUES, GOSPEL, ROCK, AND JAZZ

Barrelhouse Words

Long Lost Blues

A Blues Dialect Dictionary

Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920

STEPHEN CALT

PETER C. MUIR

“Others have tried to unlock the meaning of the old blues, but Stephen Calt sets a new standard in this important work. His book will serve as an indispensable guide for blues fans and delight those who love the twists and turns of American vernacular language at its most creative.

Whether you are a scholar or just a browser, this learned lexicon belongs on your shelf.”—Ted Gioia, author of Delta Blues and The History of Jazz

“Muir’s revealing book contributes significantly to understanding how sheet music and the pop music industry influenced the blues. An important work.”—Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919

2009. 264 pp.

30 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03347-6 $75.00 31 Paper 978-0-252-07660-2 $26.95

King of the Queen City

“This fascinating work discusses the genesis and introduction of a minority music genre into mainstream culture in a way that is impossible to ignore, given the importance of blues connections to other genres. Essential reading for anyone interested in American popular music.”

—Dick Spottswood, host of The Dick Spottswood Show on BlueGrassCountry.org

JON HARTLEY FOX

2010. 344 pp. 31 black & white photos, 9 tables 35 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03487-9 $85.00 36 Paper 978-0-252-07676-3 $35.00

Foreword by Dave Alvin

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The Story of King Records

“In its time—1943 to the late 1960s—King Records was absolutely unique, and it deserves a unique account of its history. King of the Queen City is that account: focused, thoroughly researched, well written, and filled with vital information about America’s most important independent record label.”—Nolan Porterfield, author of Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America’s Blue Yodeler “As a longtime fan of King artists such as Freddie King, Wade Mainer, and the Spirit of Memphis, I have waited patiently for someone to write a book about King Records.

King of the Queen City relates the fascinating story of Syd Nathan’s life’s work and his sometimes eccentric record company.”—Kip Lornell, author of The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide To American Folk Music 2009. 240 pp. 23 black & white photos 32 Cloth 978-0-252-03468-8 $29.95

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Record Makers and Breakers Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers JOHN BROVEN

“4 stars. Welcome to a world filled with payola, the mob, and jukebox sounds.”—MOJO “Replete with groundbreaking research that more than any other single book explains how the popular music industry worked. A must read about the record industry.”

—Robert Pruter, author of Doowop: The Chicago Scene 2009. 640 pp. 97 black & white photos, 2 maps, 4 tables 37 Cloth 978-0-252-03290-5 $50.00 151 2010. Paper 978-0-252-07727-2 $30.00

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AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Hard Luck Blues

AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Roots Music Photos from the Great Depression

Blues Before Sunrise

RICH REMSBERG

The Radio Interviews STEVE CUSHING Foreword by Jim O’Neal

“Cushing’s interviews are among the best I have ever read. Blues Before Sunrise appeals to blues fans, media scholars, and any reader who appreciates regional voices and good old-fashioned storytelling.”—Barry Lee Pearson, coauthor of Robert Johnson: Lost and Found 2010. 264 pp. 18 black & white photos 33 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03301-8 $75.00 34 Paper 978-0-252-07718-0 $24.95

Foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff. Afterword by Henry Sapoznik

Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than 200 photographs created by the New Deal’s FSA photography program. The images depict a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in homes and on street corners to organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and community festivals.

2010. 248 pp. 240 black & white photos 38 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03524-1 $75.00 39 Paper 978-0-252-07709-8 $34.95

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BLUES, GOSPEL, ROCK, AND JAZZ

Lost Sounds Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 TIM BROOKS

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Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South MICHELLE R. SCOTT

Appendix by Dick Spottswood

Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, the ARSC Award for Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound, and the Irving Lowens Award, given by the Society for American Music. Tim Brooks received the ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award.

“An act of cultural reclamation—the great lost heroes of black performance.”—New York Times “A thrilling book . . . causing us to reevaluate and reinterpret our understanding of American music and social history.”—Current Musicology 2004. 656 pp. 57 black & white photos, 16 tables 40 Cloth 978-0-252-02850-2 $65.00 41 2005. Paper 978-0-252-07307-6 $34.95

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“An important, new retrospective on the life and community in which renowned blues singer Bessie Smith was raised. Scott provides an excellent account of the dynamics of race, sex, and material wealth in Tennessee as it developed into a pivotal transportation and manufacturing region in the postwar South. Especially fascinating are Smith’s move into vaudeville and other little-known aspects of her popularity and showmanship, which occurred long before Smith signed with Columbia Records and recorded her first hit. A model for popular culture courses, this book will also be useful in American studies, American history, African American studies, sociology, and women’s studies classes.”—Daphne Duval Harrison, author of Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s “An interesting, solidly researched, well-organized, well-told contribution to the social history of the blues.”

—Choice

Chicago Blues Portraits and Stories DAVID WHITEIS

“His portraits of and stories about these musicians— Junior Wells, Billy Branch, Sharon Lewis, Artie White— give the reader a clear sense of what it means to “live the blues.”—Choice “As an active participant in the Chicago blues scene and a Maxwell Street habitué for more than a quarter century, journalist David Whiteis offers some tellingly insightful sociological observations on the intrinsic power of the music and draws on his extensive catalog of interviews over the years to present a kaleidoscopic picture of the Windy City blues world, both on and off stage. . . . Must reading for blues fans everywhere.”—Sing Out

2008. 216 pp. 15 black & white photos 44 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03338-4 $60.00 45 Paper 978-0-252-07545-2 $25.00

Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound NELSON GEORGE Foreword by Quincy Jones, Introduction by Robert Christgau

“George’s reporting is first-rate and there are juicy anecdotes, nuggets of gossip and trivia along with the straight corporate history. . . . This is a book for pop music fans, anyone curious about the recording industry, and fans of Dreamgirls who want to know the true story.”

—Philadelphia Daily News 2007 312 pp. 52 black & white photos 46 Paper 978-0-252-07498-1 $24.95

2006 344 pp. 40 black & white photos 42 Paper 978-0-252-07309-0 $20.00

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Singing in a Strange Land C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America NICK SALVATORE

“An absorbing study of a fascinating figure . . . [Salvatore] seems to have tapped into the soul that moved Franklin in song and sermon and that thrived beneath the beat of Motown.”—The New York Times 2006 448 pp. 42 black & white photos, 5 line drawings 43 Paper 978-0-252-07390-8 $24.95

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BLUES, GOSPEL, ROCK, AND JAZZ

Black Women and Music

Marian McPartland’s Jazz World

More than the Blues

All in Good Time

EDITED BY EILEEN M. HAYES AND LINDA F. WILLIAMS

MARIAN MCPARTLAND

“Black Women and Music provides valuable and lucid evidence for the fact that music making has historically been and continues to be an arena in which black American women explore and create identities that consider the mutually constitutive, embodied, and imagined categories of race, gender, class, generation, and sexuality.”—Women and Music

“Marian McPartland is as wittily incisive a writermemoirist as she is a pianist and radio sage. The new postscripts enhance a jazz classic—portraits of an era, from the other side of the footlights.”—Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams

2007. 280 pp.

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Dewey and Elvis The Life and Times of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Deejay LOUIS CANTOR

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006 “More than the story of an underappreciated disc jockey and his relationship to Elvis. Woven throughout the book is thoughtful, original, and illuminating research on the social history of race and how notions about racial identity and geographical space informed the ways in which the segregated white and black residents of Memphis interacted and were involved in one another’s musical cultures and social spheres.”—Journal of Southern History 2005. 320 pp. 22 black & white photos 50 Cloth 978-0-252-02981-3 $34.95 152 2010. Paper 978-0-252-07732-6 $24.95

Foreword by James T. Maher

2005. 208 pp. 12 black & white photos 53 Paper 978-0-252-07298-7 $16.95

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Burn, Baby! BURN! The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague MAGNIFICENT MONTAGUE WITH BOB BAKER

“Montague! Dynamic! Understanding! A brother in the struggle! Yes, the Magnificent Montague! A man who commanded so much love and respect it will never, never, never be replaced. Take it from the Godfather of Soul, paying homage to the Don of Radio: This book tells it all.”—James Brown “Montague’s undeniable energy and passion for life leap from the pages.”—Los Angeles Sentinel 2003. 216 pp. 19 black & white photos 54 Cloth 978-0-252-02873-1 $24.95 55 2009. Paper 978-0-252-07684-8 $19.95

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Race, Rock, and Elvis

Music in American Life

MICHAEL T. BERTRAND

AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Winner of the annual Book and Essay Award given by the Shelby County Historical Commission (Memphis, TN)

Le Jazz Jazz and French Cultural Identity MATTHEW F. JORDAN

Tracing the integration of jazz into French cultural identity, Le Jazz examines the French media’s shifting debates surrounding jazz from its arrival during World War I to the period after France’s liberation from Nazi occupation. The book looks at the fierce debates on whether jazz was good or bad music and whether or not it should be accepted into French culture, following the ongoing conversation until the anti-jazz voices disappeared from public discourse.

“Convincingly argues that the black-and-white character of the sound, as well as Elvis’s own persona, helped to relax the rigid color line and thereby fed the fires of the civil rights movement.”—Karal Ann Marling, American Historical Review “A major contribution to our knowledge of the cultural importance of early rock and roll.”—Craig Morrison, Journal of American Folklore 2005 352 pp. 10 black & white photos 56 Paper 978-0-252-07270-3 $19.95

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2010. 320 pp. 23 black & white photos 51 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03516-6 $75.00 52 Paper 978-0-252-07706-7 $30.00

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BLUES, GOSPEL, ROCK, AND JAZZ

Robert Johnson

VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

Lost and Found

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

BARRY LEE PEARSON AND BILL MCCULLOCH

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005.

“An insightful, useful, and thoroughly convincing examination of a legendary musician. Instead of focusing on devils at midnight, deserted crossroads, and brimstone barter, the authors look closely at lived experience, illuminating the real life of a ‘walking bluesman.’”—Stephen Wade, editor and producer of A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings “By far the best book yet on Johnson.”—Dirty Linen 2008 176 pp. 10 black & white photos 57 Paper 978-0-252-07528-5 $25.00

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AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

BluesSpeak The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual EDITED BY LINCOLN T. BEAUCHAMP JR.

This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from The Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history’s most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by the African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp, the Annual gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, gender, and inequity.

2010. 176 pp. 61 black & white photos 58 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03440-4 $75.00 59 Paper 978-0-252-07692-3 $24.95

SERIES EDITORS: PORTIA K. MAULTSBY AND MELLONEE V. BURNIM

Ramblin’ on My Mind New Perspectives on the Blues EDITED BY DAVID EVANS

“A superb overview of blues scholarship that is followed by a rich and diverse set of essays. There could be no stronger group of scholars assembled to deal with this topic. Many of the contributors have devoted a lifetime to the blues. Their combined research is a truly awesome tribute to the global importance of blues.”—William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.

2008. 440 pp. 7 black & white photos 62 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03203-5 $75.00 63 Paper 978-0-252-07448-6 $27.00

Follow Your Heart Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues JOE EVANS WITH CHRISTOPHER BROOKS Forewords by Tavis Smiley and Bill McFarlin

“Evans crafts a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful account of living through the violence of Jim Crow segregation, shady business dealings, and the hazards of life on the road.”—Aaron Cohen, Associate Editor, DownBeat

AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Give ‘Em Soul, Richard!

Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago RICHARD E. STAMZ WITH PATRICK A. ROBERTS

“Charming, straightforward autobiography of one of the great, unheralded figures in jazz and R&B.”—Kirkus Reviews 2008. 200 pp. 19 black & white photos 64 Cloth 978-0-252-03303-2 $24.95

Foreword by Robert Pruter

This memoir of pioneering Chicago broadcaster and activist Richard E. Stamz—also know as “The Crown Prince of Soul”—surrounds his stories of race records, juke joints, and political action in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood with insights on the larger historical trends that were unfolding around him.

2010. 160 pp. 25 black & white photos 60 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03498-5 $60.00 61 Paper 978-0-252-07686-2 $20.00

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Songs in Black and Lavender Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music EILEEN M. HAYES Foreword by Linda Tillery

Hayes details black women’s experiences in conjunction with “women’s music” and the feminist movement through extensive interviews with black women musicians and women’s music festival attendees and organizers conducted since 1992.

2010. 264 pp.

65 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03514-2 $75.00 66 Paper 978-0-252-07698-5 $25.00

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B L U E G R A S S A N D C O U N T RY

I Hear a Voice Calling

Bluegrass Odyssey

A Bluegrass Memoir

A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86

GENE LOWINGER

CARL FLEISCHHAUER AND NEIL V. ROSENBERG

“A vivid, emotional, and poignant look at a unique era in bluegrass music, captured in words and photos by a man who not only studied the music, but performed it and toured with the master as a member of his band.”

—Douglas B. Green (Ranger Doug), guitarist and vocalist of Riders in the Sky and author of Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy

“This book is about not just the musicians but also the devoted fans, the streets and stores and offices, the buses and pickups and festival sites and musical instruments and traditions that reveal the cultural landscape of bluegrass.

Rosenberg’s narratives set the stage for Fleischhauer’s compelling, black-and-white photos.”—Choice

“A fascinating meditation on the nature of creativity and mentorship. Intimate and moving, funny and profound, Lowinger’s photos powerfully represent the indomitable Bill Monroe in his last years as a performer.”—Erika Brady, author of A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography 2009. 136 pp. 75 black & white photos 67 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03475-6 $65.00 68 Paper 978-0-252-07663-3 $19.95

The Music of Bill Monroe NEIL V. ROSENBERG AND CHARLES K. WOLFE

“A monumental work on a monumental subject. In part a reference work, it offers complete discographical data for all the recording sessions—spanning over half a century—of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe. And beyond that, it covers the history and describes the impact of all the countless songs and tunes recorded in these sessions (an astonishing number of which have become permanent classics within the entire spectrum of vernacular music) and outlines the backgrounds of all the countless musicians who participated in them. And beyond even that, and intertwined with it all, it offers a fascinating professional (as opposed to personal) biography of one of America’s most influential and creative musical talents.”—John Wright, author of Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music 2007. 384 pp. 10 tables 69 Cloth 978-0-252-03121-2 $35.00

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The Bluegrass Reader EDITED BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH

International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2004 award for Print Media Personality of the Year.

“A great reference work and the perfect introductory read for anyone interested in the history of bluegrass and its major figures.”—Nashville Scene 2004. 376 pp.

70 Cloth 978-0-252-02914-1 $34.95 71 2006. Paper 978-0-252-07365-6 $21.95

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2007 208 pp. 203 black & white photos 72 Paper 978-0-252-07400-4 $24.95

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Come Hither to Go Yonder Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe BOB BLACK Foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg

Bob Black was named the International Bluegrass Music Association Print Media Personality of the Year for this book

“[Black’s] portrait of Monroe is perceptive and sensitive, valuable because of its close perspective and also because Black has a different take on the man than many previous Monroe documentarians. A must-read for Monroe fans.”—Bluegrass Unlimited 2005. 208 pp. 40 black & white photos 73 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03002-4 $40.00 74 Paper 978-0-252-07243-7 $21.95

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Bluegrass A History NEIL V. ROSENBERG 20th Anniversary Edition

“A genuine pleasure to read. Rosenberg’s love, understanding, and research of one of America’s true national treasures shines through on every page. . . . A classic.”

—Peter B. Kuykendall, editor of Bluegrass Unlimited 2005 512 pp. 40 black & white photos 75 Paper 978-0-252-07245-1 $24.95

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Homegrown Music Discovering Bluegrass STEPHANIE P. LEDGIN Foreword by Ricky Skaggs

Winner of the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism “The perfect introduction for those interested in knowing more about bluegrass and a needed addition to the canon of bluegrass scholarship.”—Bluegrass Unlimited 2006 224 pp. 25 black & white photos 76 Paper 978-0-252-07376-2 $19.95

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Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels

Working Girl Blues

The Women of Barn Dance Radio

HAZEL DICKENS AND BILL C. MALONE

KRISTINE M. MCCUSKER

“A fascinating portrayal of how one Appalachian native navigated the American shoals. Dickens’s voice illuminates the pristine, original, and enduring folk culture of the region and will stimulate readers to ask larger questions about American polity.”—Archie Green, author of Tin Men

The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens

“In her engaging and exciting book, McCusker brings the women of barn dance radio to life. Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels is a fascinating story of how these women constructed their public images to showcase a virtuous, all-American character and support the sale of sponsors’ products. The women’s lively firsthand accounts are delightful!”—Casey Henry, professional bluegrass musician 2008. 224 pp. 12 black & white photos 77 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03316-2 $60.00 78 Paper 978-0-252-07524-7 $19.95

“Inspiring. . . . highly readable and ultimately unforgettable.”—Bluegrass Now “Hazel Dickens is an icon, and it is about time a booklength biography was published about her. . . . A treat for friends and fans.”—Goldenseal

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2008 144 pp. 41 black & white photos 82 Paper 978-0-252-07549-0 $17.95

The Hayloft Gang

Music in American Life

The Story of the National Barn Dance

Pressing On

EDITED BY CHAD BERRY

“A valuable resource for those who want to understand how country music, rural imagery, and nostalgia permeated twentieth-century American life.”—Joli Jensen, author of The Nashville Sound: Authenticity, Commercialization, and Country Music “The National Barn Dance’s importance has long been underappreciated in the scholarship on country music, and The Hayloft Gang makes a vital contribution. . . . A particularly strong group of authoritative voices on the history of country music, early radio broadcasting, and American culture.”—Diane Pecknold, author of The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry 2008. 232 pp. 50 black & white photos 79 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03353-7 $65.00 80 Paper 978-0-252-07557-5 $24.95

The Roni Stoneman Story RONI STONEMAN AS TOLD TO ELLEN WRIGHT

“We already knew Roni as a first-rate banjo player and comic. This book reveals her as a sharp, observant, thinking woman, and a captivating storyteller.”—Murphy Henry, banjo player and columnist for Banjo Newsletter and Bluegrass Unlimited “Stoneman’s story is crammed with her personality, full of funny anecdotes about her family and other performers with whom she worked, all wrapped in her hillborn cussedness.”—No Depression 2007. 304 pp. 30 black & white photos 83 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03191-5 $70.00 84 Paper 978-0-252-07434-9 $19.95

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Live Fast, Love Hard Air Castle of the South

The Faron Young Story

WSM and the Making of Music City

DIANE DIEKMAN

CRAIG HAVIGHURST

“His is a rich story, spanning the golden age of honkytonk, women, liquor, ruin and glory, and no small entrepreneurial spirit. . . . Diekman is scrupulous and meticulous in her assemblage of details. . . . Young’s family and surviving friends seem to have given her ready access and unflinching honesty.”—No Depression

“Havighurst has done a service in preserving the colorful and instructive history of WSM—and in reminding us that giants once lived on the radio dial.”—Wall Street Journal “A fascinating and compelling work, shedding significant new light on how Nashville, ‘The Athens of the South,’ evolved into Music City USA.”—No Depression “Deeply interesting.”—Dirty Linen “4 stars. Riding the airwaves through the history of Nashville’s premier radio station.”—MOJO

“A rare glimpse inside the tumultuous life of this talented and troubled musician.”—Dirty Linen 2007. 296 pp. 25 black & white photos, 1 table 85 Cloth 978-0-252-03248-6 $29.95

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2007. 320 pp. 23 black & white photos 81 Cloth 978-0-252-03257-8 $29.95

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B L U E G R A S S A N D C O U N T RY

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Country Music Humorists and Comedians

Music of the First Nations

LOYAL JONES

EDITED BY TARA BROWNER

“The importance of the subject emphasized by Jones is unquestionable. . . . This volume is insightful, informative, and entertaining.”—Bill C. Malone

“This anthology offers an exciting variety of scholarly studies of musical practices of First Peoples. This highly influential work undoubtedly makes an important contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, containing essays that will become widely cited.”—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

2008. 448 pp. 120 black & white photos 86 Cloth 978-0-252-03369-8 $65.00

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Don’t Get above Your Raisin’ Country Music and the Southern Working Class BILL C. MALONE

Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize and named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title “Bill Malone has the rare gift of being able to evaluate a culture from within, to make it live and breathe even as he dissects it with great precision.”—James Cobb, author of Redefining Southern Culture 2002. 432 pp. 20 black & white photos 87 Cloth 978-0-252-02678-2 $34.95 88 2006. Paper 978-0-252-07366-3 $24.95

Tradition and Innovation in Native North America

“A fascinating and innovative collection of case studies, including work by Native American scholars as well as articles co-authored by non-Native scholars and Native community members. This collection’s special strength is the rich variety of methodological approaches and communities presented, some of which have been underrepresented in previous literature in American Indian ethnomusicology.”—Victoria Lindsay Levine, author of Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements Music in American Life

Music in American Life

2009. 184 pp. 2 black & white photos, 6 line drawings, 2 maps 92 Cloth 978-0-252-02221-0 $35.00

Bluegrass Breakdown

Heartbeat of the People

The Making of the Old Southern Sound

Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow

ROBERT CANTWELL

TARA BROWNER

Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

“A truly significant contribution to the field . . . promises to be the most comprehensive and detailed source available on the pow-wow, including an excellent compilation of information on its origins as well as its various styles of music and dance.”—Victoria Lindsay Levine, author of Writing Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements

“Without a doubt, the most thought provoking work on bluegrass—and its father, Bill Monroe—I have ever read.”—Bluegrass Unlimited 2003 336 pp.

89 Paper 978-0-252-07117-1 $19.95

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AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

Restless Giant The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs BAR BISZICK-LOCKWOOD

An in-depth account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the Austrian expatriate who, with his brother Julian, built one of the most powerful music publishing companies of the 1940s and 1950s: Hill and Range Songs.

2010. 304 pp. 36 black & white photos, 1 line drawing, 2 tables 90 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03507-4 $75.00 91 Paper 978-0-252-07694-7 $25.00

“[Heartbeat of the People] is crucial because it subverts simplified stereotypical interpretations, demonstrating that pow-wow culture is multifaceted, sometimes conflictive, and always in process, shifting, transmuting.

The book is a window, in effect, to a major contemporary cultural expression emanating from the Native communities of the North.”—Inés Hernández-Avila, member of the Nez Perce nation from Nespelem, Washington, and associate professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis.

2004. 200 pp. 25 black & white photos, 7 line drawings, 2 tables 93 Paper 978-0-252-07186-7 $20.00

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Lives in Chinese Music

Chinese Street Opera in Singapore

EDITED BY HELEN REES

TONG SOON LEE

“Each essay in this collection makes original contributions to Chinese music scholarship, and the juxtaposition of musicians from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds provides a viable forum for future research and discussion. By privileging musicians and their works, the authors render many nameless musicians visible; more important, this book provides a much-needed and nuanced understanding of how music is produced on the ground and how attention to this kind of music production enriches Chinese music historiography.”—Frederick Lau, author of Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

“This groundbreaking study examines the ways Chinese street opera has been redefined and transformed as part of the process of nation building in Singapore.”—Margaret Sarkissian, associate professor of music, Smith College

“Rees has brought together a lively and engaging collection of essays that shows the breadth of music-making possibilities in China. The stimulating essays cover a very broad range of music makers, including illiterate village musicians, an ethnic minority rock star, elitist instrumentalists, and a Cantonese opera singer living in England. A truly unique and welcome approach.”

—Nancy Guy, author of Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan 2009. 232 pp. 15 black & white photos, 2 line drawings, 1 table 94 Cloth 978-0-252-03379-7 $45.00

Songs for the Spirits Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam BARLEY NORTON

“This book is at once reflexive, accessible, and consistently theorized. Barley Norton is closely attentive to the political life of performance and to the lived reality of rituals in a shifting socialist landscape. His writing is vivid and exacting, and the book’s DVD invites a process of reading, watching, and listening that is wonderfully rewarding.”—Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music “Barley Norton’s foundational study provides an indispensable guide to the music that animates Vietnamese mediumship. Choice anecdotes and recordings introduce individual mediums and musicians, demonstrate the musicality of religious experience, and reveal how ritual music is learned, performed, and transformed in Vietnam.”—Philip Taylor, editor of Modernity and Reenchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam 2009. 280 pp. 10 black & white photos, 2 line drawings, 7 tables 95 Cloth 978-0-252-03399-5 $45.00

“Based on detailed ethnographic and archival research, this study of Chinese opera in Singapore subtly highlights the nuances of professional vs. amateur performance, the contributions of different dialect groups, and the tie-in by the 1990s with officially promoted cultural nationalism and tourism. The author is a cultural insider whose linguistic expertise and personal experience greatly enrich his treatment of the topic.”—Helen Rees, author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China 2009. 232 pp. 2 line drawings, 7 tables 96 Cloth 978-0-252-03246-2 $40.00

The Black Cow’s Footprint Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India RICHARD K. WOLF

Winner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities of the American Institute of Indian Studies.

“A much-needed and extremely valuable addition to the limited ethnomusicological literature on Indian tribal peoples. The comprehensive glossary and detailed index add to the monograph’s value for ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and others who will be drawn to Wolf’s careful ethnography and multifaceted analysis.”

—Journal of Folklore Research 2006. 352 pp. 15 black & white photos, 13 line drawings, 17 tables 97 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03116-8 $85.00

Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan NANCY GUY

Recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor award for ethnomusicology; and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Inherently enlightening and informative, Guys’ book offers its readers an inspired understanding of how politics and the arts collide in the Republic of China. . . . [This work] is not merely a scholarly account from an outsider’s perspective, but an impassioned thesis from someone who grew out of the tradition and cared deeply about its future. Guy’s book is not only a must read for serious students of opera, but a fundamental resource for those interested in the ongoing art-versus-politics debate.”

—Comparative Drama 2005. 256 pp. 10 black & white photos, 1 line drawing, 3 tables 98 Cloth 978-0-252-02973-8 $35.00

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ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

East African Hip Hop

Cuban Zarzuela

Youth Culture and Globalization

Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage

MWENDA NTARANGWI

“This gracefully written book takes East African hip hop music as a revealing entry point into the experiences of youth as they deal with issues of gender, sexuality, economic inequality, and political power. An excellent contribution to anthropology and African studies.”

—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium 2009. 176 pp.

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Rap Music and Street Consciousness CHERYL L. KEYES

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title “Rich in detail and analysis, this book is perhaps one of the most comprehensive in rap music scholarship. . . .

Rap Music and Street Consciousness is certain to become one of the classic books in hip-hop scholarship.”—Journal of American Folklore Music in American Life 2004. 336 pp. 48 black & white photos 101 Paper 978-0-252-07201-7 $25.00

Why Suyá Sing A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People ANTHONY SEEGER

Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society

SUSAN THOMAS

Cuban Zarzuela marks the first comprehensive study of the Cuban zarzuela, a Spanish-language light opera with spoken dialogue that originated in Spain but flourished in Havana during the early twentieth century. Focusing on character types such as the mulata, the negrito, and the ingenue, Thomas uncovers the zarzuela’s richly textured relationship to social constructs of race, class, and especially gender.

“A commendable job of fusing analytical techniques from historical musicology with broader issues from women’s studies, cultural studies, and other disciplines.

No other work focuses on this material with such a critical eye, and no other draws such interesting parallels between distinct zarzuelas as Thomas.”—Robin D. Moore, author of Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba 2008. 264 pp. 2 black & white photos 103 Cloth 978-0-252-03331-5 $40.00

Zarzuela Spanish Operetta, American Stage JANET L. STURMAN

“Based on solid inter-disciplinary historical research in Spanish and Latin American musical and stage traditions, long-term personal exposure to live zarzuela performances in New York City and El Paso . . . and extensive fieldwork among the primary participants in this theatrical culture: zarzuela performers and audiences.”

—Ethnomusicology Music in American Life

“As an example of sustained contact (1972-2003!) and sensitive reporting, Seeger’s work is matched by few other “long-term studies.” Fortunately the Suyá demonstrate sustained population growth and increasing power within the political context of modern Brazil. Why Suyá Sing is a monument to a unique society, its music, and its creativity.”—Journal of Anthropological Research 2004. 184 pp. 6 black & white photos, 11 line drawings, 13 tables 102 Paper 978-0-252-07202-4 $30.00

Soulstepping African American Step Shows ELIZABETH C. FINE

“Elizabeth Fine takes us on a journey of discovery. . . .

All groups have dance steps that the group performs together for the pure joy of celebrating life. Soulstepping brings out that joy, that exhilaration, that love of life. This celebration is long overdue.”—Nikki Giovanni

2000. 264 pp. 26 black & white photos, 12 line drawings, 6 tables 104 Cloth 978-0-252-02596-9 $29.95

Poetry and Violence The Ballad Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica JOHN H. MCDOWELL

“A carefully crafted ethnography. . . . [McDowell] succeeds in making his case for the power of the corrido tradition on the Costa Chica to mediate fundamental cultural issues. . . . A groundbreaking analysis.”—Journal of American Folklore 2008. 272 pp. 6 x 9. 26 black & white photos, 1 line drawing.

140 Paper 978-0-252-07562-9 $25.00

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2007. 216 pp. 6 x 9. 44 black & white photos.

142 Paper 978-0-252-07534-6 $19.95

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Music and Cultural Rights

Musical Improvisation

EDITED BY ANDREW N. WEINTRAUB AND BELL YUNG

Art, Education, and Society

“The best perspective to date on the issues of music and cultural rights. This anthology speaks to the many scholars who believe that engaged scholarship is the way of the future.”—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

EDITED BY GABRIEL SOLIS AND BRUNO NETTL

Supported by the Human Rights Division under the Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation 2009. 336 pp. 16 black & white photos, 1 map, 5 charts, 3 tables 105 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03473-2 $70.00 106 Paper 978-0-252-07662-6 $25.00

If Beale Street Could Talk

2009. 376 pp. 3 black & white photos, 3 line drawings 109 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03462-6 $75.00 153 Paper 978-0-252-07654-1 $30.00

Music, Community, Culture ROBERT CANTWELL

“This collection is magisterial in terms of its historical and contemporary depth and breadth, and its conversations with a very wide range of philosophers, theorists, artists, musicians, and cultural forms and ideas. The writing is superb, suffused with originality, playfulness, intensity, and the willingness to take risks that models the best of public intellectual writing.”—Mary Hufford, editor of Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage “Like no other commentator, Cantwell grounds structures of feeling in historical experience, reclaiming the landscapes and bodies that have left their traces on our haunted American culture. This book is a wondrous tour of the American imaginary.”—Dorothy Noyes, author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco 2008. 312 pp. 7 black & white photos 107 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03362-9 $75.00 108 Paper 978-0-252-07566-7 $25.00

Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity

The Study of Ethnomusicology Thirty-one Issues and Concepts BRUNO NETTL New Edition

“Presenting a complete history of the field of ethnomusicology, this updated edition represents a tremendous accomplishment. It does a wonderful, even heroic job of highlighting the major issues in the field, then tracing them over time to reflect their development and interrelatedness.”—Ellen Koskoff, professor of ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology “An astounding achievement by a scholar who has shaped the field more than anyone else. I can think of no one else who could have achieved this breadth with such authoritativeness. The updated material is worked seamlessly into the text, and the new chapters are a tour de force.”—Anthony Seeger 2005. 528 pp.

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EDITED BY SOPHIE FULLER AND LLOYD WHITESELL

Winner of the Philip Brett Award, the Gay & Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society “A beautifully edited collection of essays devoted to the intersections of music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950. . . . A stellar contribution to queer music scholarship [and] an essential text for those interested in the modernist period.”—Journal of the American Musicological Society 2008. 336 pp. 6 x 9. 20 black & white photos.

141 Paper 978-0-252-07578-0 $25.00

“Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation.”—Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University

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ETHNOMUSICOLOGY/ FOLK MUSIC

Life Flows On in Endless Song

Sing It Pretty

ROBERT V. WELLS

A Memoir

Crafting a thematic map of four centuries of American history, Wells investigates how songs embody shifting attitudes toward the institution of the family, war and religion, work and the labor movement, transportation in America, and slavery and Jim Crow. He also considers modern folk heroes Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie.

Featuring a selective discography of key recordings, this book offers an accessible model for using folk songs as a richly evocative reflection of the American past.

BESS LOMAX HAWES

“A fabulous book with wide appeal. Wells opens up contemporary folk songs to provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and everyday responses to historical events.”

—Scott Reynolds Nelson, author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend 2009. 272 pp.

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Music in American Life

Received an honorable mention from the International Alliance for Women in Music “A great American story that deserves to be read by millions over decades to come. An immediate classic that is a delight to read.”—Daniel Sheehy, director of Smithsonian Folkway Recordings and former director of Folk and Traditional Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts “She learned the tools of folklore fieldwork by transcribing the songs of rural musicians and taught herself how to play these songs, eventually joining the Almanac Singers, which included Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, as part of a growing folk movement.”—Library Journal “This valuable book will establish Bess Lomax Hawes’s reputation more widely as a folklorist, musical teacher and musicologist, while also making a worthwhile contribution to the music history of mid-20th-century North America.”—European Journal of Communication 2008. 216 pp. 19 black & white photos 116 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03313-1 $65.00 155 Paper 978-0-252-07509-4 $19.95

Music in American Life

The Never-Ending Revival Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance MICHAEL F. SCULLY

Folksongs of Illinois A Project of the Illinois Humanities Council

“A welcome, fascinating compilation, exceptionally well-produced from sources of highly variable quality.

The historical notes will provide excellent material for teachers; the CDs comprise wonderful listening of rarely heard music.”—Sing Out! Volume 1 PRODUCED BY CLARK “BUCKY” HALKER

“Scully covers new territory in exploring the recent history of folk music in the United States by focusing on Rounder Records and the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance. This book is essential for anyone interested in recent developments in folk music and its role in the aftermath of the folk revival of the 1960s.”

—Ronald D. Cohen, author of Folk Music: The Basics “Particularly impressive is Scully’s recapitulation of the painful debates about Rounder’s commercial survival and the nature of folklore and folk song.”—Ed Cray, author of Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

113 2007. CD 978-0-252-03242-4 $12.99

2008. 288 pp. 12 black & white photos 117 Cloth 978-0-252-03333-9 $40.00

Volume 2: Fiddlers

Music in American Life

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Together Let Us Sweetly Live

Traveling Home

The Singing and Praying Bands

Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism

JONATHAN C. DAVID, WITH PHOTOS BY RICHARD HOLLOWAY

KIRI MILLER

“This book is superb. It combines historical analysis, first-person narrative, musical transcription, and photos to form a landmark study of folk religion. With insight and respect it conveys a wonderful sense of humanity.”

—Stephen Wade, editor and producer of A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings “This indispensable reference source and comprehensive treasury of information on a phenomenal heritage and culture includes an accompanying CD.”—Multicultural Review 2007. 264 pp. 78 black & white photos, 1 line drawing 118 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03170-0 $80.00 119 Paper 978-0-252-07419-6 $27.00

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“Masterfully written, brimming with wit and interpretive energy, Traveling Home will undoubtedly become the definitive work on Sacred Harp singing. One of the best ethnographies of American vernacular music, Miller’s book brilliantly succeeds in mapping the complex and shifting range of meanings that Sacred Harp singing holds for diverse participants and in showing why people are attracted to it.”—David Stowe, author of How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans “[One of the] most penetrating and subtle ethnographic accounts of Sacred Harp singing.”—Journal of Folklore Research “Essential reading for anyone who has ever been stirred by singing the shapes.”—Sing Out!

Music in American Life

2008. 272 pp. 8 black & white photos 123 Cloth 978-0-252-03214-1 $45.00

Staging Tradition

Music in American Life

John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott AVAILABLE SPRING 2010

MICHAEL ANN WILLIAMS

“Public sector, or applied, folklore gets far too little academic treatment, and study of its early years is virtually virgin territory. Thus, it is a great delight to have this well-written, engaging, and illuminating historiography of two of its pioneers. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “An important work that should appeal to all US folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and American Studies scholars.”—Journal of Folklore Research 2006. 264 pp. 26 black & white photos 120 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03102-1 $60.00 121 Paper 978-0-252-07344-1 $20.00

Music in American Life

Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century GILLIAN RODGER

“A pathbreaking contribution. This is the first in-depth, scholarly treatment of variety musical theater, and there is nothing comparable to it. Rodger follows sound scholarly methodology and is innovative in her pursuit of information from underutilized sources. No one interested in musical theater will be without it.”—Dale Cockrell, author of Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World

Religion, Music, and Public Culture

2010. 296 pp. 23 black & white photos 124 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03539-5 $80.00 125 Paper 978-0-252-07734-0 $28.00

STEPHEN A. MARINI

Music in American Life

Sacred Song in America

“This unusually fine and important book has no parallel.

I know of no other book on American religious music with as wide a sweep. As a historian of American religion, and as a student and practitioner of sacred music, Marini is simply and utterly unique.”—Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Secular City and Fire from Heaven “The breadth of Marini’s study is staggering.”—Journal of Southern Religion “We owe Marini deep thanks for this unusual study. He offers compelling insights into the nature of our public religion, what moves us, how secularity and sacrality intertwine.”—Cross Accent 2003. 416 pp. 2 line drawings 122 Cloth 978-0-252-02800-7 $34.95

Public Expressions of Religion in America

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DANCE

Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake

Dancing across Borders

A Social and Popular Dance Reader

EDITED BY OLGA NÁJERA-RAMÍREZ, NORMA E. CANTÚ, AND BRENDA M. ROMERO

EDITED BY JULIE MALNIG

“An incredibly needed volume for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and advisors in the field of dance. These essays afford compelling glimpses into communities dancing in particular places and times; the authors provide nuanced understandings of dancing as a means of forming identity and community.”—Ann Dils, coeditor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader “This well-researched and balanced classroom tool looks inside genres like ragtime, dance marathons and krumping, and its iconic photos will help readers further understand each style.”—Dance Teacher 2008. 392 pp. 27 black & white photos 126 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03363-6 $75.00 127 Paper 978-0-252-07565-0 $25.00

The Body Eclectic Evolving Practices in Dance Training EDITED BY MELANIE BALES AND REBECCA NETTL-FIOL

“Holds great historical significance for its documentation of the changes in dance training and technique and provides essential tools for us to assess what we have gained in our knowledge of the body, as well as what we may have lost in terms of our value systems during the past fifty years.”—Donna White, professor and chair of modern dance, University of Utah “Rich with anecdotes and a treasure trove of citations and references, this book will give dance teachers, scholars, graduate students, and dancers a fascinating read.”

—Dance Magazine 2008. 280 pp.

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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky EDITED BY JOAN ACOCELLA

“A richly literate and annotated translation . . . Acocella is a masterful midwife to this extraordinary tale.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review “This moving document . . . begs fresh interpretations of [Nijinsky’s] life, artistry, ideas and psychological history.”—The New York Times 2006. 384 pp. 25 black & white photos 130 Paper 978-0-252-07362-5 $24.95

Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos

“This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance’s significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus.”

—Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture 2009. 472 pp. 37 black & white photos, 6 line drawings, 1 map, 4 tables 131 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03409-1 $80.00 132 Paper 978-0-252-07609-1 $30.00

Culture Makers Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s AMY KORITZ

“Amy Koritz’s engaging book brings together drama, dance, and fiction of the 1920s in paired case studies of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. Koritz provides an eloquent and refreshing collection of detailed, insightful case studies that illuminate the way in which artists, intellectuals, and cultural commentators used culture-making to pose ‘symbolic resolutions’ to key social and cultural tensions of modernity.”—David M. Scobey, author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York Landscape 2008. 216 pp.

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Josephine Baker in Art and Life The Icon and the Image BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE

“Like many writers before her, Jules-Rosette is clearly captivated by her subject, but she manages to temper her star-struck curiosity with impressive intellectual rigor. . . . Determining where the diva ended and the woman began is a daunting task, and Jules-Rosette answers the challenge with skill.”—New York Times Book Review “Baker–revolutionary performer, cabaret owner, movie star, fashion plate, hero of the French Resistance, humanitarian, and mother of 12 adopted children of diverse backgrounds–is an indelible icon. And it is that status that Jules-Rosette so thoroughly analyzes as she deconstructs Baker’s self-mythologizing ability to transform ‘her theatrical performances into social and political statements,’ and ‘dream of universal brotherhood.’. . . Replete with priceless illustrations.”—Booklist 2007. 392 pp. 54 black & white photos, 1 table 134 Paper 978-0-252-07412-7 $25.00

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Dancing Lives Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d’Action to Merce Cunningham KAREN ELIOT

“A gallery of fresh and compelling portraits of women who dance. Eliot illuminates the hidden dimensions of their emotional and psychological lives in her focus on developments in ballet and modern dance since the eighteenth century. In writing that is clear, accessible, and gently affectionate, this dance historian and former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company makes the persuasive argument that a close and careful look at the full lives of past dancers affords a unique view of world history, cultural evolutions, and historical dance events.”—Janice Ross, author of Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance 2007. 216 pp. 15 black & white photos 135 Cloth 978-0-252-03250-9 $32.95

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American Music EDITED BY MICHAEL HICKS

Now in its 28th year, American Music publishes articles on American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry. The journal also includes interviews with composers and reviews of books, recordings, films, websites, and concerts as well as bibliographies, and discographies.

Dance Research Journal Official journal of the Congress on Research in Dance EDITED BY ANN DILS

Dance Research Journal (DRJ), published twice yearly, carries scholarly articles, book reviews, a list of books and journals received, and reports of scholarly conferences, archives, and other projects of interest to the field.

Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and nonmembers of CORD, and will be accepted at any time.

Choreographies of African Identities Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal FRANCESCA CASTALDI

“An innovative, vivid narrative of dance and the choreographies of identities in Senegal, which is certainly thought-provoking in its combination of ‘thick’ ethnographic description and theoretical reflections. . . .

I . . . recommend her study to anyone interested in West African performing arts, identity politics, and discourses of ethnographic writing.”—African Affairs 2006. 264 pp. 1 black & white photo 136 (Unjacketed) Cloth 978-0-252-03027-7 $50.00 137 Paper 978-0-252-07268-0 $25.00

Dancing Wisdom Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé YVONNE DANIEL

Music and the Moving Image Official Journal of the Film Music Society EDITED BY GILLIAN B. ANDERSON & RONALD H. SADOFF

Music and the Moving Image is an online journal dedicated to the relationship between the entire universe of music and moving images (film, television, music videos, computer games, performance art, and webbased media). The journal is published in collaboration with the Film Music Society and sponsored by the NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.

Black Music Research Journal EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON

Winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006) “[Daniel] advances dance anthropology through ambitious meticulous scholarship, acute comparative analyses, riveting ethnographic description and a sensual sense of the dancing body that makes one feel the movement of the muscles and spirit.”—Dance Research Journal

Begun in 1980, Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. BMRJ is an official journal of the Center for Black Music Research and is available by subscription and as a benefit of membership with CBMR.

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