Journal of the Society for American Music

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the Society for American Music is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
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Improvisation and Value in Rock, 196614
“This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football3
“Spinnin' the Webb”: Representational Spaces, Mythic Narratives, and the 1937 Webb/Goodman Battle of Music2
Theory on the South Side: Muhal Richard Abrams's Engagement with Joseph Schillinger's System of Musical Composition2
Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life. By Denise Von Glahn. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.1
Negotiating Convention: Pop-Ups and Populism at the San Francisco Opera1
“I'm Just an Armless Guitarist”: Tony Melendez, Disability, and the Social Construction of Virtuosity1
A “Fresh New Music Mix” for the 1980s: Broadcasting Multiculturalism on Crossover Radio1
Singing “Past, Present and Future”: Music in Early American Commemoration1
Finding Florence Mills: The Voice of the Harlem Jazz Queen in the Compositions of William Grant Still and Edmund Thornton Jenkins1
Private Equity Blues: Warner Music Group, Nonesuch Records, and Jazz in the Era of Financialization1
Defining the Songs of Incarceration: The Lomax Prison Project at a Critical Juncture1
“For Thee America! For Thee Syria?”: Alexander Maloof, Orientalist Music, and the Politics of the Syrian Mahjar1
“Strange What Cosmopolites Music Makes of Us”: Classical Music, the Black Press, and Nora Douglas Holt's Black Feminist Audiotopia1
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Institute for Composer Diversity, https://www.composerdiversity.com/0
Ethnic Irony in Melvin B. Tolson's “Dark Symphony”0
Che Apalache. Rearrange My Heart. Free Dirt Records, 2019.0
The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America by Melissa D. Burrage, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019.0
Dawn of the DAW: The Studio as Musical Instrument. By Adam Patrick Bell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
Stephanie Economou. Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok. Ubisoft Music, 20220
George C. Wolfe. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Netflix, 2020. 1 hr, 34 min - Dee Rees. Bessie HBO Films, 2015. 1 hr, 55 min.0
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Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back By Mark Slobin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.0
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams By Tammy L. Kernodle. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020, 2nd edition.0
Duke Ellington Studies. Edited by John Howland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.0
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Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture By Mark R. Villegas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.0
A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial By Steven P. Garabedian. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.0
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Duke Ellington, El Rey del Jazz and the Mexico City Massacre of 19680
God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music By Andrew Mall. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.0
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Coleccionistas de Sonido Website. 2022. https://www.coleccionistasdesonidos.com/0
“All I See Is Your Booty and Cleavage”: Sex and the Contemporary Gospel Song (1988–2017)0
Leslie Uggams, Sing Along with Mitch (1961–64), and the Reverberations of Minstrelsy0
Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace. By Esther M. Morgan-Ellis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.0
Music is a Place: Oprys and the Rural Working-Class Constitution of Public Space0
George Frederick Bristow By Katherine K. Preston. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020.0
The Spiritualist Ear0
What We Talk about When We Talk about Live Smooth Jazz: Sonic Suburbanization, Multipurpose Places of Assembly, and Collective Memory in Regional Cleveland0
Christian Sacred Music in the Americas Edited by Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.0
Steelpan Ambassadors: The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999. By Andrew R. Martin. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2017.0
Panpipes and Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia By Fernando Rios. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.0
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More Than One “Double Life”: Artistic Conceptions, Networks, and Negotiations in Benny Goodman's Commissions to Paul Hindemith and Darius Milhaud0
Wonderful Design: Glamour in the Hollywood Musical By Lloyd Whitesell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
Amazing Grace, directed by Sydney Pollack (Neon, 2018); Whitney, directed by Kevin Macdonald (Miramax, 2018).0
From the Editor and Assistant Editor0
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music. By Ann Powers. New York: Dey St. Books, 2017.0
Paul Williams: The Cage Mix0
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“Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music,” Digital Collections, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/womens-suffrage-sheet-music/0
“I'm on My Way to a Heav'nly Lan’”:Porgy and Bessas American Religious Export to the USSR0
Curricular Reform and a Culture of Listening: Lessons from the Rosedale Freedom Project0
Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present By Seth Bovey. London: Reaktion Books, 2019.0
“The Hall Does Not Make the Space”: Disrupting Concert Hall Norms in Hannibal's One Land, One River, One People0
Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth Century South By Candace Bailey. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.0
Queers of Steel: Camp in John Williams's Superman (1978) and Jerry Goldsmith's Supergirl (1984)0
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton By Lydia Hamessley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.0
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A Multiplicity of Stories: Reading Feminist Orientalism in Scheherazade.20
Darby Wheeler, dir. Hip-Hop Evolution Banger Films, 2016. Streaming0
The Berkeley Folk Music Festival & the Folk Revival on the US West Coast—An Introduction. Northwestern University. Website. https://sites.northwestern.edu/bfmf/0
The Velvet Underground Todd Haynes, director. Criterion Collection Blu-ray. 2021.0
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White By Kimberly Mack. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.0
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Home is Together: Sounds of Belonging in the Correspondence of Two Japanese American Families Separated by Wartime Incarceration0
“A Most Valuable Curiosity”: Music Manuscripts, Authorship, Composition, and Gender at the Ephrata Cloister in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania0
Leonard Bernstein and Washington, D.C.: Works, Politics, Performances Edited by Daniel Abraham, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, and Andrew H. Weaver. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Roch0
Balanchine and Kirstein's American Enterprise By James Steichen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.0
Listen But Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific By Kevin Fellezs. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.0
“I'm Workin’ on My Buildin”: Freedom and Foundation-Building in Florence Price's Two Violin Fantasies0
Selling Orchestral Music in the Vaudeville Age: The Duncan-Damrosch Tours, 1908–19110
Remembering the Cotton Screwmen: Inter-racial Waterfront Labor and the Development of Sailors’ Chanties0
Battlestar Galactica and Space Opera: Transforming a Subgenre0
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John Hartford's Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Compiled and narrated by Matt Combs, Katie Harford Hogue, and Greg Reish. StuffWorks Press Inc., 2018.0
Max Lifchitz: A Transmodern Composer in American Music?0
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“Aaron Copland Collection,” Digital Collections, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/aaron-copland/0
Whose History?: The Americas and Music Curricula in the United States0
The American Piano Industry: Episodes in the History of a Great Enterprise By William E. Hettrick. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2020.0
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Los Rurales Y Los Amigos de Buena Vista. Ocotitia. Released February 26, 2021. Cugate Clásicos Latinos, LC 08867, 2021. CD.0
Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture. By E. Douglas Bomberger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
All Rights Reserved: Behind the Strategic Copyright of “We Shall Overcome”0
Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real By Tracy McMullen. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2019.0
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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field By Mark Burford. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.0
Are Popular Music Curricula Antiracist?: The CCNY Music Department as a Case Study0
Sell a Song of Safety: Children, Radio, and the Safety Patrol0
Affective Interruptions: Political Collectivity in Halftime0
“A Much More Valuable Signature”: Gender, Factory Labor, and the Mythology of Builder-Signed Amplifiers from Fender's “Tweed” Era, 1948–600
Against the Grain Theatre's Messiah/Complex and Indigenous Sovereignty0
Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers. Rachel Barton, Pine, violinist. With Matthew Hagle, pianist. Cedille Records CDR 90000 182, 2018, compact disc.0
“To Speak As an Oracle of Christ”: Bishop G. E. Patterson and the Afterlives of Ecstasy0
Bernice Johnson Reagon's Musical Coalition Politics, 1966–810
Musical Entanglements: Ely Haimowitz and Orchestral Music under the US Army Military Government in Korea, 1945–19480
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The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music By Susan McClary. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.0
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/0
“Spinnin’ the Webb”: Representational Spaces, Mythic Narratives, and the 1937 Webb/Goodman Battle of Music—CORRIGENDUM0
Capturing the Zeitgeist: Preserving American Music and Culture in the Mashups of DJ Earworm0
Fuser. Harmonix. Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. 20200
Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the MarketplaceBy William Robin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.0
Club Petroushka, Émigré Performance, and New York's Russian Nightclubs of the Roaring Twenties0
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“The Dress-Clad, Out Loud Singer of Queer Punks”: Bradford Cox and the Performance of Disability0
The Padrone By George Whitefield Chadwick. Edited by Marianne Betz. Music of the United States of America. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2017.0
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“VeryFemale, with the Allure of a Foreign Aura”: Vocality, Gender, and European Exoticism in the US Careers of Alice Babs and Caterina Valente0
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Dancers on a Grid: Musical Minimalism Arrives at New York City Ballet in 19830
Blackface Minstrelsy and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield0
Silent Film Sound & Music Archive: A Digital Repository. https://www.sfsma.org0
Got To Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound By Andrea Swensson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.0
The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture. By Dale Chapman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.0
Taking the German Muse out of Music:The Chronicleand US Musical Opinion in World War I0
The Hymnal: A Reading History. By Christopher N. Phillips. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.0
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion. Let the Soil Play its Simple Part Released June 25, 2021. Nonesuch Records, SKU#075597915891, 2021. CD0
Unlimited Replays. By William Gibbons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Record Industry By Kyle Barnett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.0
Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life. By Denise Von Glahn. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.—CORRIGENDUM0
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Make it Count While We're Here: Words, Music, and the Summer of 2020 LL Cool J. “Untitled.” Instagram, May 31, 2020. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CA4BGv9gvm8/?hl=en. - Lil Baby. “The Bigger Picture.” 0
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake: Shuffle Along Music of the United States Volume 29. Recent Researches in American Music Volume 85. Edited by Lyn Schenbeck and Lawrence Schenbeck. Middleton, WI: A-R Edit0
Rodrigo Brandão. Outros Barato. Ingua Records, 2018, CD.0
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Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online Edited by Martin Iddon and Melanie L. Marshall. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.0
Music and Camp. Edited by Christopher Moore and Philip Purvis. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018.0
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Samantha Ege, piano, with John Paul Ekin, piano. Black Renaissance Woman: Piano Music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Helen Hagan Lontano Records Ltd, 2022, CD0
Conjured from Fragments: KMD'sMr. Hoodand the Transformative Poetics of the Golden Age Rap Album0
American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest Edited by Nym Cooke. Boston: David R. Godine, 2017.0
Experimentalisms in Practice: Musical Perspectives from Latin America. Edited by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
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Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics. By Angela K. Ahlgren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
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“I Just Told Them Like It Was”: Performance and History at Colonial Williamsburg0
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Ginger Smock: Narratives of Perpetual Discovery, Jazz Historiography, and the “Swinging Lady of the Violin”0
“The influence of Melody upon man in the wild state of nature”: Enslaved Parishioners, Anglican Violence, and Racialized Listening in a Jamaica Parish0
The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the U.S. Supreme Court0
Music and Deafness in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Imagination0
Rethinking Reich Edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.0
Terrible Freedom: The Life and Work of Lucia Dlugoszewski By Amy C. Beal. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.0
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women's Country Music, 1930–1960 By Stephanie Vander Wel. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.0
Hearing Epistemic Sound in Experimental (Music) Systems, 1958–730
Music Division, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/music-division.0
Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man By Tom Ewing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. - Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Dave Macon Story By Michael D. Doubler. Urbana: University of0
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Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies By Dylan Robinson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.0
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance By Christi Jay Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.0
Dvořák's Prophecy: A New Narrative for American Classical Music Produced by Joseph Horowitz. Naxos, 20210
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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz By Katherine A. Baber. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.0
Say Amen, Somebody. Directed by George Nierenberg. Milestone Films, 1982.0
Preaching from the Choir: Music Departments and Their Discontents0
The ASCAP-BMI Feud, Status Panic, and the Struggle for Cold War Consensus0
“I'd Rather [Sound] Blue”: Listening to Agency, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Vocal Recordings of Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand0
Beautiful Politics of Music: Trova in Yucatán, Mexico. By Gabriela Vargas-Cetina. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017.0
The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War. By Emily Abrams Ansari. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
Historical Records: Reissuing as Curatorial Practice in Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music0
New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras By Joel Rubin. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020.0
Partch. Bitter Music, Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 1. Bridge 9349A/C, 2011. CD. - Partch. Plectra and Percussion Dances, Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 2. Bridge 9432, 2014. CD. - Partch. Sonata Dementia,0
The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer By Dottie Dodgion and Wayne Enstice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.0
Fostering the “Art of Forceful Speech”: Music in the Century Club of California, 1888–19200
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Carter. By David Schiff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.0
Fostering the “Art of Forceful Speech”: Music in the Century Club of California, 1888–1920—CORRIGENDUM0
Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles By Marina Peterson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.0
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South By Regina N. Bradley. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.0
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Teaching Freedom Song as Antiracist Praxis0
Groundhog Summers and the Search for the Black Messiah Noname. “Song 33.” Song 33—Single. Noname, 2020. - Adia Victoria. “South Gotta Change.” South Gotta Change—Single. Atlantantic Recording Corporat0
American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination By Elizabeth A. Clendinning. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020.0
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A Multiplicity of Stories: Reading Feminist Orientalism in Scheherazade.2 – CORRIGENDUM0
Blending the Popular and the Profound: Organ Concerts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition0
Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema. By Frank Lehman. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2018.0
Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America. By Katherine K Preston. AMS Studies in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxix, 618 pp.0
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The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics By Robin James. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.0
Jon Batiste. WE ARE Verve Records, 20210
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Televising Talent: Musicality, Meritocracy, and the Aesthetics of Exclusion0
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Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space By James Gordon Williams. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 20210
Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania By Sarah Justina Eyerly. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.0
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Sonic Domination and the Politics of Race in Southern Antebellum Hymnody0
Philippa Duke Schuyler. Seven Pillars of Wisdom Sarah Masterson, piano. Centaur Records 3944, 20220
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Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure By Maria Golia. London: Reaktion Books, 2020.0
Singing Out: GALA Choruses and Social Change By Heather MacLachlan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.0
Zenaida Romeu, Camerata Romeu. La Bella Habana CD. Habana, Cuba: Cugate Classics, 2019.0
Met Opera on Demand https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/0
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Charles Ives, Complete Symphonies Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon, 2 CDs, B0033369-02, 2020.0
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Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care0
Digital Sound Studies. Edited by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Muellwer, and Whitney Trettien. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.0
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“The Silent Partner”: Tonearms and Modular Masculinities in U.S. Midcentury Hi-Fi Culture0
Agave Baroque and Reginald L. Mobley. American Originals: A New World, A New Canon Acis Productions LLC. 2021.0
Dashon Burton's Song Sermon: Corporeal Liveness and the Solemnizing Breath0
Accountability and Imagination in Undergraduate Curricular Reform0
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