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Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium, edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle. CMS Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 16. Michael J. Budds, series editor. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press,...
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Early Music Matters: Revitalizing the Survey through a Contextual Approach[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract The early music segment of the Western music history survey is an important opportunity to reach out to undergraduate music students before they become the music educators, performers, and advocates for music in our communities. In such...
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Ugh! Why Pink? A Brief History of Music's Academic Color
Ugh! Why pink? As surely as commencement rolls around every year, this exclamation is heard at universities and colleges throughout the country. From faculty and graduates alike comes the question: "Why was pink chosen as the academic color for...
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Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience
In April 1998, the Yale University Department of Music and School of Music held a conference to commemorate the centenary of Charles Ives's graduation from Yale in 1898. "Ives & Yale '98" featured talks and panels on Ives's music and on his experiences...
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The Other World Music: Percussion as Purveyor of Cultural Cues in Exotic Lounge Music
In the 1950s, a pianist named Martin Denny made a percussion-heavy recording of a tune called “Quiet Village.” This recording reached Number 4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 music chart and became the most popular song on Denny’s Exotica album (1957).1 The...
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From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo: Music at the World's Columbian Exposition
O what music there will be in Chicago From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo. The orchestras will play And the brass bands too, they say, For that great Columbian Fair at Chicago. We'll hear such melodies with grandest chords and harmonies When the...
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Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas
In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...
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“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity
Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...
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The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a survey of anthologies of music published since 1965. Prior to this date, the classroom teacher had access to only a few compilations of music. These included, for example, Albert Wier's...
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Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio
Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...
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The Origin of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
It has been almost fifty years since Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-19281 were first recognized in print as a watershed of jazz history and the means by which the trumpeter emerged as the style's first transcendent figure.2...
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More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War
Introduction Although making music and making war may seem incompatible, the two endeavors have been inextricably linked throughout recorded history. There is, perhaps, no better example of this powerful pairing than the American Civil War, often...
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Design for Change: Creating Significant Learning Experiences in the Music Classroom
Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained, and otherwise the...
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These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...
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"Trollopiana"—David Claypoole Johnston Counters Frances Trollope's Views on American Music
The publication of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (London, 1832) provoked a storm of angry reactions in the United States. Journalists, artists, and popular-music composers alike denounced her criticisms of American life and...
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Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination
Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...
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"Broadway the Hard Way:" Techniques of Allusion in the Music of Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa might be described as a cultural guerilla. He sees that the popular arts are propagandistic in the broad sense—even when they masquerade as rebellion they lull us into fantasy and homogenize our responses. So he infiltrates the machine and...
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Choral music is one of the most enduring programs in music in American higher education. The idea that an educated citizen should have some competence in singing and experience in a choral ensemble predates the Declaration of Independence by at least...
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The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination. Ross Cole. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 259 pp. 25 black and white images. ISBN: 9780520383739. $85.00 In his recent book, Ross Cole draws a potentially eye-raising...
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