[i]Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War[/i] by Carol J. Oja

04 May 2016 roundtable participants vehemently called for a reconsideration of race-related discourses in musical theatre studies. Carol J. Oja’s magnificent Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War demonstrates how effectively and convincingly...

Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 Colored Men. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1878. Endnotes 1Samuel A Floyd, Jr, “The Failure.” . 2Carol J. Oja and Mark Tucker, “Mapping the Future,” 8-9. 3See the Mark Tucker Fund for Jazz Research Materials:...

Women and Music: A History, edited by Karin Pendle

01 October 1992 will be integrated in gender as well as race, bringing the invisible women and men of the past into full view. authors: Carol J. Oja author_ids: 1153 authors: Carol J. Oja author_ids: 1153

"Trollopiana"—David Claypoole Johnston Counters Frances Trollope's Views on American Music

01 October 1981 fiddlers to realize that the conventional minstrel-show image of the Negro was already established." (p. 78) authors: Carol J. Oja author_ids: 1153 authors: Carol J. Oja author_ids: 1153

Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...

The Symbiosis of Teaching and Research: A Forum

01 October 2004 Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock, ed. Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 3. McClary note 1See McClary, "The Blasphemy of Talking Politics during...

Extensions to the Pedagogical Canon: Expanding Perspectives on William Grant Still and the Teaching Applications as Realized in the [i]Seven Traceries[/i]

17 August 2015 Abstract William Grant Still’s Seven Traceries (1940) is a set of piano pieces that exhibits a number of post-tonal materials and techniques such as octatonicism, extended tertian sonorities, dense chromaticism, and extensive motivic development....

Iconography of the Viol: The Soloist in Baroque Portraits

01 October 1980 instrument during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. 1For a more complete explanation of RIdIM, see Barry S. Brook and Carol J. Oja, "The RCMI, RIdIM, and the Exhibition of Eighteenth-Century Musical Ensembles," SYMPOSIUM 18, No. 2 (Fall 1978),...