Works Published with the Assistance of
Society for American Music Subventions


H. Earle Johnson Fund

Thomas McGeary, The Music of Harry Partch: A Descriptive Catalogue (1991)
Katherine K. Preston, Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-1860 (1993)
Barbara Heyman, Samuel Barber: The Composer and his Music (1992)
Ellen Knight, Charles Martin Loeffler: A Biography (1993)
Marilyn Ziffrin, Carl Ruggles (1994)
Cecelia Conway, African Banjo, Echoes in Appalachia (1995)
Ralph P. Locke, Cyrillia Barr, Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activities (1997)
Judith Vander, Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion (1996)
Nolan Porterfield, The Last Cavalier: John A Lomax, 1867-1948 (1996)
Dale Cockrell, Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World (1997)
Karen Ahlquist, Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theatre, and Culture in New York City, 1815-60 (1997)
Adrienne Fried Block, Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian (1998)
Michael Hicks, Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions (1998)
Andrea Olmstead, Juilliard: A History (1998)
Bell Yung and Helen Rees, Understanding Charles Seeger (1999)
Catherine P. Smith, Study in Contradictions: Toward a Biography of William Grant Still (1999)
Charles K. Wolfe, Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry (1999)
Alan C. Beuchner, Sons of Harmony (in preparation)
Carol Oja, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000)
Ellen Koskoff, Music in Lubavitcher Life (2000)
Kai Fikentscher, "You Better Work!" Underground Dance Music in New York City (2000)
R. Allen Lott, Grand Tours: Five European Piano Virtuosos in the New World (2001)
Tim Brooks, Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 (2002)
Liane Curtis, A Rebecca Clark Reader (2002)
Leta E. Miller, Lou Harrison (2002)
Doris Evans McGinty, A Documentary History of The National Association of Negro Musicians (2003)
Ron Pen, Louis Dolive, and Richel Brett Harley, eds., Kentucky Harmony and Supplement to Kentucky Harmony (2003)
Elizabeth B. Crist, Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War (2004)
 Gayle Murchison, The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland’s New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 (2004)
John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1920
Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Performance of Identity
Howard Pollack, George Gershwin: His Life and Legacy
Judith Tick, Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
Catherine Parsons Smith, Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular
Mark Zobel, The Third Symphony of Charles Ives
Larry Hamberlin, That Opera Rag: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era
James Lovensheimer, South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten
John Koegel, ed., Music, American Made: Essays in Honor of John Graziano (2010)
Steve Swayne, Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life (2010)
John Spitzer, ed., American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century (2011)

Sight and Sound Fund (previously Non-Print Publications Subvention)

Benjamin Sears and Bradford Connor, Irving Berlin Songs, 1915-1918 (Oakton: 1996)
Adrienne Fried Block, Music of William Mayer and Amy Beach (Newport Classics: 1997)
Cal Johnson, Chicago Renaissance Woman: Florence Price Organ Works (Calcante: 1998)
Lauralyn Kolb, Songs of John Duke (New World Records: 1999)
Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation, A Marc Blitzstein Songbook (Companion CD; Boosey & Hawkes, 1999)
Farmer's Museum, Winter's Song: Seasonal and Holiday Favorites from Candlelight Evening (2000)
Gerri Gribi, CreativeFolk.com, Afro-AmericanHeritage.com (Website Development, 2004)
Brenda M. Romero Canciones de mis patrias (Songs of My Homelands) (2005)
John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1920 (Companion CD, 2007)
Harmonie Ensemble/New York, Symphonic Jazz II: Gershwin Originals (CD, 2008)
Ben Harbert, "Follow Me Down: The New Work of Louisiana Prison Songs" (Film Project, 2009)
Anna Beresin, University of the Arts, "Urban American Gamestories and Songs" (Companion website to Recess Battles, 2010)
Jocelyn Arem, Caffè Lena History Project Website (2011)

 

Publications Fund

William Lichtenwanger, Oscar Sonneck and American Music (1983)
Deane L. Root and Stephen Saunders, The Music of Stephen C. Foster (1990)
J. Bunker Clark, Bringing Music History Home (1991)
Richard Crawford, ed., Music in the United States (1993- )
Ronald Cohen, Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (2001)
Bill C. Malone, Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class (2001)