Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History

31 August 2013 in his career is contradicted not only by the virtuosity that Coltrane demonstrates on all those recordings, but also by Lewis Porter’s Coltrane biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music, which documents how Coltrane’s legendary practice habits were...

Jazz in American Education Today

01 October 1989 In Music (Fall 1978). Five more are reviewed by Edward Berger in Annual Review of Jazz Studies 4 (1988). authors: Lewis Porter author_ids: 1198 authors: Lewis Porter author_ids: 1198

Analyzing Improvised Jazz

01 October 1992 5Barry Kernfeld, "Two Coltranes," Annual Review of Jazz Studies 2 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1983), 7-66. 6Ibid., 26. 7See Lewis Porter, "Lester Leaps In: The Early Style of Lester Young," Black Perspectives in Music 9 (1981): 3-23. See also the formulaic...

A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Blurred Genres: Reflections on The Ethnomusicology of Jazz Today

26 August 2014 Abstract The study of jazz has been part of ethnomusicology since the 1940s, contributing meaningfully to the discipline's core theories and methodologies. In turn, ethnomusicological studies have profoundly colored jazz scholarship at large. This...

Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981

20 September 2019 Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 From a hasty perusal of this year's CMS program (1979), I can only conclude that there are but few of us reckless generalists still about, ready to cover the entire history of a country's musical activity, or at least one part of it, in something like...