Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXV, no. 1 (Spring 1999)
Some Recent Articles and Reviews
Compiled by William Kearns, University of Colorado at Boulder
AMERICAN BRAHMS SOCIETY
(Autumn 98): Daniel Gregory Mason, "Yankee Doodle" as it might have been treated by
Brahms [reprinted from The Outlook, 27 Jan. 1912], 7.
AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
(June 98): Robert E. Eliason comments on recieving the Society's Kurt Sachs award for 1998, 1.
(Oct. 98): Karen Hoag, "Sweet Song of the Harp" [harp builder Carl Pratt, Provo, UT], 1.
ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS JOURNAL
(fALL 98): Phil Milstein, "American Song-Poem Music Archives," 206; Ron Sweetman, "Recording
Activity in New Orleans in the 1920s," 208.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
(Nov 98): William Hoagland, 'Corn Bread When I'm Hungry: Dock Boggs and Rock Criticism," 116.
(Feb 99): William Youngren, "Black and White Intertwined," essay review of Richard M. Sudhalter's
Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945, 86.
BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL
(fall 97): David Metzer, 'Shadow Play: The Spiritual in Duke Ellington's 'Black and Tan Fantasy,'"
137; Mark Mattern, "Let the Good Times Roll: Music and Race Relations in Southwest Louisiana," 159;
Thomas Brothers, "Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music (ca.
1890-1950)," 169; Willie Anku, "Principles of Rhythmic Integration in African Drumming," 211; Kadazi wa
Mukuna, "Creative Practice in African Music: New Perspectives in the Scrutiny of Africanisms in
Diaspora," 239.
BLUEGRASS NOW
(Oct 98): Nancy Cardwell, "Ronnie McCoury: Firing on All Eight Cylinders," 4; Phil Hodgen, "James
King: Staying Close to the Roots," 10; Chris Jones, "More Than Words: Nelson Mandrell," 44.
(Dec 98): Joe Romano, "Norman Blake: making the old sound new and the new sound old," 4; Eddie
Collins, "Herb Pederson: You can go home again," 10; Chris Lewis, "High Plains Tradition: International
Bluegrass Music Assn. or Bust," 14; Chris Jones, 'Songwriter Sean Watkins," 40.
BLUES ACCESS
(Fall 98): Bryan Powell, "The Kids are Alright: A New Generation in Search of Respect," 12;
Scott Barretta, 'Renaissance Man [Raeburn Herlage photos]," 26; Rebecca Davis, "Child is Father to the
Man: How Al Wilson Taught Son House How to Play Son House," 41; David Fedd, "A Conversation with
the Erstwhile Minstrel Singer, Howard Armstrong," 51.
(Winter 99): D. Thomas Moon, "Strange Voodoo: Inside the Vaults of Chess Studios," 12; Tim Schuller,
Metroplex Blues: Snapshots from teh Dallas-Ft. Worth Blues Scenes," 22; "Do the Right Thing Summer,"
excerpt from Adam Gussow's Mister Satan's Apprentice, 32; "Images of the Blues and Jazz
Photographs by Lee Tanner," 42.
BLUES REVUE
(Jan/Feb 99): Short features on Lucky Peterson, Shirley King, the Holmes Brothers, Buddy and Phil Guy,
the Brooks Family, and Kenny Neal.
BOOSEY & HAWKES NEWSLETTER
(Sept 98): "Elliott Carter: A Phenomenal Career," 1; Premiers of Maxwell Davies, A Reel of
Seven Fishermen; Michael Torke's Kasper, Lucent Variations, and Pentecost;
Elgar-Payne Symphony No. 3; Steve Mackey's Ravenshead; and Del Tredici's The Spider
and the Fly.
BRASS BULLETIN
(No. 103, 1998): Irving Bush, "Meeting Louis [Armstrong]: Miami 1960," 24; Jean-Pierre Mathez,
"The C. G. Conn Co. [UMI, USA, Inc.], Pt. 1," 60.
THE BRASS PLAYER
(Fall 98): Bruce MacComber, "The Canadian Brass: If you swing it, they will come," 6.
(Winter 98): Don Kneeburg & Christopher Doane, "The Role of the Brass Band in the Contemporary
School Band Program, Pt. 1," 1; Bill Warfield, "The Jazz Repertory Orchestra," 10.
THE BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION
(Sept 98): George N. Heller, 'Time Flies When You're Havin' Fun: Twenty Volumes of BHRME," 1; John
Grashel, "Women in the JRME," 17; James W. Scholten, "The Julliard Repertory Library: A Review,
Retrospect, and Reassessment," 27; Sondra W. Howe, "The Tune Books of William Billings: Music
Education in the Eighteenth Century," 43.
BULLETIN OF THE COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION
(Sum 98): Jere T. Humphreys and Charles P. Schmidt, "Membership of the Music Educators National
Conference from 1912-1938: A Demographic and Economic Analysis," 16.
CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC BULLETIN
(Sept. 98): David Gregory, "In Memoriam R2RS," [Ragtime to Rolling Stones, 104 one-hour radio programs,
1981-97, CKUA, Alberta, tracing the history of mainly American popular music], 5.
CANADIAN UNIVERSITY MUSIC REVIEW
(18/2 98): Carl Morey, 'The Music of Wagner in Toronto before 1914," 25; Ellen Waterman, "Wolf Music:
Style, Context, and Authenticity in R. Murray Schafer's And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon,"
72; Revs. of Brendan G. Carroll's The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold,
by Marc-Ande Roberge, 100; Charles Hamm's Putting Popular Music in its Place, by Howard Spring,
115; David Brackett's Interpreting Popular Music by Ken McLeod, 119; Shane K. Bernard's Swamp
Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues, by Ken McLeod, 124.
CHOIR AND ORGAN
(Nov./Dec 98): Lewis Foreman, "Playing On" [C.H.H. Parry's 150th birthday anniversary], 14; mickey T.
Terry, "African=American Neglect [organ music by U.S. black composers], 18.
CHORAL JOURNAL
(Oct. 98): Lee Egbert, "Norman Dello Joio's Secular Choral Music: Conversations with the Composer," 15.
(Dec 98): Patricia O'Toole, "A Missing Chapter from Choral Method Books: How Choirs Neglect Girls," 9;
Hilary Apfelstadt, "Practices of Successful Women's Choir Conductors," 35.
THE CLARINET
(Jul-Aug 98): Rolf Krueger, "Eberhard Kraut: Committed to New Orleans Jazz and Metal Clarinets," 44.
(Dec 98); Stephen Heinemann, "The American Premiere of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto," 34.
CLASSICAL CD
(Dec 98): Michael Oliver, "Founding Fathers of American Music," 80.
CLASSICAL SINGER
(Sept 98): Conard Fowkes, "New York Taxes for Performers," 26.
(Oct 98): Emily Brunsen, "The Fountain of Truth: Singers Discuss the Importance of Age in Singing and
Performance," 8.
THE DIAPASON
(Nov 98): Earl Holt, "AGO Denver: 1998 National Convention Report," 13.
(Dec 98): David Spicer, "Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA," 18.
DIRTY LINEN: FOLK AND WORLD MUSIC
(Dec-Jan 98): Edward R. Silerman, "Klezmer: It's All in the Cholent," 42.
(Feb-Mar): Steve Winick, "Islands of Song: [Alan] Lomax's Journey Continues," 70.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
(Fall 98): Julian Gerstin, "Reputation in a Musical Scene: The Everyday Context of
Connections between Music, Identity, and Politics," 385; Thomas Porcello, "Tails Out: Social
Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music Making," 485.
FANFARE
(Nov 98): Brian Robins, "Twenty-Five Years of Boston Baroque: an Interview with Martin Pearlman," 125.
(Jan 99): Benjamin Pernick, "New York Philharmonic: The Mahler Broadcasts," 64.
FILM SCORE
(Oct-Nov 98): Bill Whitaker, "Devotion," an interview with Brenden G. Carroll, author of
The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 22.
(Dec 98): Daniel Goldmark, "Doing the Lord's Work" [music for The Prince of Egypt].
FLUTE TALK
(Nov 98): Msgr. Lawrence Ink, "Musical Careers in the Military," 26.
(Dec 98): Robert Rawlins, "Developing a Jazz Technique," 21.
GRAMOPHONE
(Dec 98): Marck Walker, "Film Music of Debbie Wiseman, Alex North, & George Fenton," 120.
GUITAR REVIEW
(Sum 98): Pablo Zinger, "El Paso: World of a String Guitar Festival," 21.
HARMONY
(Oct 98): Gideon Toeplitz, "Hoshin and The Pittsburgh Sympohny," 1; Robert Sterns, "Harmonizing the
Cultures of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra," 13; "Kansas City Symphony: The Path
to Evergreen" [orch. members' round table discussion], 30; William L. Cahn, "Can Symphony
Music Become Popular Music? (And Other Outrageous Questions)," 61; Christos Hatzis, "Ritual
Versus Performance: The Future of Concert Music," 81.
THE HYMN
(Oct 98): David W. Music, "Edward Taylor and the Metrical Psalms," 18; Felicia A. Piscitelli,
"Thirty-Five Years of Catholic Hymnals in the United States (1962-1997)," 21.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAZZ RECORD COLLECTORS JOURNAL
(Sum 98): Michael P. Zirpolo, "Artie Shaw and His Symphonic Swing, Pt. II," 17.
THE INSTRUMENTALIST
(Oct 98): Robert Foster, 'The Splendor of Symphonic Marches," 48.
(Nov 98): Kevin L. Sedatole, "A Century of Marching [U. of Michigan]," 28.
(Dec 98): Frank Battisti, 'The Marine Band Turns 200," 90.
(Jan 98): Stuart Stone, 'Darius Milhaud's Suite Francaise," 31; Robert Foster, "The
Finest Band Works of the Past Fifty Years," 77.
INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL RECORD COLLECTOR
(Fal 98): Kenneth Morgan, 'The Drama Queen [Rise Stevens]," 8; Graham Silcock interviews Seymour
Solomon [Vanguard Classics], 60.
(Winter 99): Mortimer H. Frank, "From the Pit to the Podium: Toscanini in America," 8.
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC JOURNAL
(Fall 98): S. Margaret McCarthy, C.S.J., "Women's Words About Music, Pt. II: Music Criticism
in New York and Baltimore," 10.
JAZZ EDUCATORS JOURNAL
(Nov 98): Thomas E. Rudolph, "Jazz Ecucation Resources on the World Wide Web," 24.
JOURNAL OF BAND RESEARCH
(Fall 98): Stephen P. Kerr, "A Brief Biography of James Clifton Williams," 25; Stephen P. Gilmore,
"Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore: America's Prototypical Impresario," 69.
JOURNAL OF COUNTRY MUSIC
(19/4, 1998): Jimmy Guterman, "In Memory: Carl Perkins," 3; Robert Bradley, "In Memory: Owen
Bradley," 5; Chris Dickinson, "Garth in the [Central] Park: Do You Recall What Was Revealed?,"
10; Michael McCall, "The Road Goes on Forever: The Billy Joe Shaver Story, Part Two," 18;
Dave Hoekstra, "The Three Decade Night of the Sundowners," 30.
JOURNAL OF MUSIC THEORY
(Sp. 98): Alan Forte, "Paul Hindemith's Contribution to Music Theory in the United States," 15.
JOURNAL OF THE CONDUCTORS GUILD
(Wintr-Sp 97): David Thomas, "A Conversation with Lucas Foss," 2.
JOURNAL OF SINGING
(Sept 98); Josepha Kennedy, S.S.J., "The Song Styles of Charles Tomlinson Griffes," 17.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
(Sum 98): Scott DeVeaux reviews Paul Berliner's Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvization,
and Ingrid Monson's Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction," 392.
MORAVIAN MUSIC JOURNAL
(Fall 98): Nola Reed Knouse: "Farewell to Two Servants of Moravian Music: Marilyn Purnell Gombosi
and David Lewis Crosby," 2; Carol Taupman-Carr, "Hangin' in the Archives: Editing Moravian Music," 6.
MUSIC ANALYSIS
(July 98): rev. of Allen Forte's The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, 256.
MUSIC AND LETTERS
(Nov 98); reviews of Philip Blackburn's Enclosure 3: Harry Partch, by David Nicholls, 363, Paul
Oliver's Conversations with the Blues by Mervyn Cooke, 638; Judith Tick's Ruth Crawford
Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music, 637.
MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM
(Fall 98): Steve Larson, 'Schenkerian Analysis of Modern Jazz Questions About Method," 209.
THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY
(Sp 98); Jeffrey Taylor, "Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, and 'Weather Bird,'" 1.
THE MUSICAL TIMES
(Winter 98): David Schiff, "Carter as Symphonist: Redefining Boundaries," 8.
THE NEW YORKER
(8/17/98): Daivd Denby, 'The Trouble with Lenny [Bernstein]," 42.
NOTES: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
(Dec 98): D. W. Krummel, "The Bay Psalm Book Tercentenary, 1698-1998," 281. Reviews of
Robert M.W. Dixon et. al, Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, 4th ed., by Edward Komara,
361; Lewis Porter's John Coltrane: His LIfe and Music, by Zbiginieu Granat, 363; Brendan
G> Carroll's The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, by Caroline C.
Benser, 366; Judith Tick's Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music, by
Juanita Karpf, 369; Mary Dupree, ed., Musical Americans: A Biographical Dictionary, 1918-1926,
by Jean Geil, 377; Robert D. Moore's Nationalizing Blackness: "Afrocubanismo" and Artistic
Revoluation in Havana, 1920-1940, by Steven Cornelius, 400; Bill Kirchner, ed., A Miles
Davis Reader, by Allan Chase, 402; Paul Jackson's Sign-Off for the Old Met: The Metropolitan
Opera Braodcasts 1950-1966, by John Koopman, 403; Sam Richards' John Cage As . . ., &
Joan Retallack, ed., Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music, by Christopher Shultis, 406.
THE OPERA JOURNAL
(June-Sept 98): rev. of the NY Center for Contemporary Opera Production of Stephen Paulus' The
Postman Always Rings Twice, by Helene Williams Spierman, 88.
OPERA NEWS
(Oct 98): Joel Honig, "Once is Not Enough: Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra is Reborn
in Chicago," 48.
(Feb 99): John W. Freeman, "The Way of the Prophet: Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron," 28; David
Hamilton interviews James Levine, "Leading Moses to the Met," 33.
THE OPERA QUARTERLY
(Winter 99): Stephen Herx, "Marcella Sembrich and Three Great Events at the Metropolitan," 49.
PETERS NOTES
(Sp 98): Hayes Biggs, "Time for Encomium: Charles Wuorinen at 60," 1.
SCHWANN OPUS
(Fall 98): Wayne Shirley, "George Gershwin: Yes, the sounds as well as the tunes are his," 6A.
PERCUSSIVE NOTES
(Oct 98); Lance Pedigo, "The Fiftes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg," 26.
PIANO AND KEYBOARD
(Jan-Feb 99):l Jed Distler interviews Andre Previn, "A Knight at the Keyboard," 25.
PIANO TODAY
(Winter 99): Robert Finn, "Unveiling a "New" Ives ["Emerson"] Concerto," 53; Riccardo Scivales, 'Gershwin's
Piano Style, Pt. III: A Missing Theme Completes the Early Novelette," 33.
POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY
(Fall 97): Paul R. Kohl, "Reading Between the Lines: Music and Noise in Hegemony and Resistance," 3;
Andrew Blake, "Making Noise: Notes from the 1980s," 19; Tony Mitchell, "Flat City Sounds: A
Cartography of the Christchurch Music Scene," 83; Maria L. Shelton, "Can't Touch This! Representations
of the African American Femal Body in Urban Rap Videos," 107; Mark Anthony Neal, "Sold Out on
Soul: The Corporate Annexation of Black Popular Music," 137.
THE RECORD COLLECTOR
(Sept 98): Paul Fryer, 'The Prima Donna War [Mary Garden and Lina Cavalieri]," 213.
RHYTHM: GLOBAL SOUNDS & IDEAS
(Oct 98); J. Poet, "Bio Ritmo & Cuba L.A.," 24; Jacob Edgar, 'Michey Hart: Return to Planet
Drum," 32.
(Nov 98); Banning Eyre, 'The Ballad of Bonnie [Rait] and Ollie [Mutukudzi]," 22; Sule G.
Wilson, "New Riders on an Ancient Wind [Native American women flutists]," 26; mark Keating, "LOreena
McKennitt, eclectiv celtic," 32.
(Dec 98): Ramiro Burr, "Roots Rediscovered: Los Super Seven: A Band of Country, Roc and R&B
All-Stars Celebrates Its Tex-Mex Heritage," 22; Iris Brooks, "Holy Hitmakers: Its a Sacred, Sacred,
Sacred World," 28.
SHEET MUSIC
(Sept-Oct 98): Frank Sinatra, articles & hit tunes.
(Nov-Dec 98): George Gershwin, articles and music.
(Jan Feb 99): Kirk Miller, "The New Kings of Swing," 4; ; Chip Deffaa, "Comden & Green: On the
Town Again," 6.
SING OUT!
(Fall 98): Pat Collier, "Corey Harris: Manifestin' the Blues," 34; Paul Zolo, "Between the Lines:
A Conversation with Janis Ian," 44; A. V. Shirk, "Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Classical Folksinger," 56.
THE STRAD
(Nov 98): Articles on Ruggiero Ricci, the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), the
San Francisco-based archetier Frank Passa, cellist Zara Nelsova, and La Jollas chamber music Summerfest
int eh American issue.
(Dec 98): Michael Kelly, "Fiddling Fever," 1318; William Starr, "A visionary [Suzuki] with a
violin," 1336.
(Jan 99): Dennis Rooney, "In with the new" [review of the Celebration fo American Excellence
exhibition, NY], 41.
STRINGS
(Jan 99): Derk Richardson interviews Kronos Quartet on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, 48.
SYMPHONY
(Nov-Dec 98): Greg Sandow, "Pop Fiction" [popular music in classical repertory], 24.
(Jan-Feb 99); Tim Page, "A Critical Moment" [convert overview], 30; Chester Lane, "An American
Century" [American Composers Orchestra], 44.
TEMPO
(Dec 98): Ronald Caltabiano, "Elliott Carter Toward the Tenth Decade," 2; Malcolm D. Robertson, 'Roy
Harris's Symphonies: An Introduction (1)," 9; performance review fo Reich's Hindenburg in
Munich, 29, and Ives's "Emerson" Concerto in Cleveland, 30; review of Morton Feldman's works
on recordings, 39.
THE TRACKER
(42/2/, 98): Theodore Davis, "Finding a Place Among the Great: William H. Davis & Song of New York,"
10; David Dahl, "The Tracker Organ Revival in the Pacific Northwest in the 20th Century," 13; Richard
Weber, "Odenbrett and Abler" [19th c. Wisconsin organ builders], 24.
20th Century Music
(Jan 99): Michael HOffman, "Carter's String Quartet NO. 2: An Overview Analysis," 11.
Windplayer
(#59, 1998): Therese Grundl, "Anthony GIgliotti," 32.
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