AMRC Journal
罢丑别听American Music Research Center Journal听was听published annually from 1991 through 2019 and included听topics of general interest about American music, particularly in subject areas relevant to the AMRC听Collections. 听
All volumes (1-28) are available online below, and physical copies (except for volumes 2 and 10) can be purchased听by completing an order form听here.听
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Volume 28听(2019)
American Progressives of the 1970s: A Colloquy,听
JAY KEISTER, JOHN J. SHEINBAUM, JEREMY L. SMITH
Black Prog: Soul, Funk, Intellect and the Progressive Side听of Black Music of the 1970s,
JAY KEISTER
There鈥檚 an Opera Out on the Turnpike: Springsteen鈥檚 Early Epics听and the Fantasy of the Real,
JOHN J. SHEINBAUM
Reading Carole King鈥檚 Tapestry as a Penelopean Retelling听of the Homeric Odyssey,听
JEREMY L. SMITH
Letters from Nadia Boulanger to Lydia Loudon in the Collection听of the American Music Research Center,
JOAN S. SEGA
The Suffolk Symphonic Orchestra and Society Papers,
GISELE SCHIERHORST
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Volume 27 (2018)
Introduction,听BRENDA M. ROMERO
The Project Description,听KELSEY A. FULLER
Meaning, Melody, and YouTube in Irish and Tibetan
Traditional Musics,听MASON BROWN
鈥淟ao Duang Duen鈥 Lost in Translation: A New Perspective on
the Southeast Asian Classical Arts,听BENJAMIN PONGTEP CEFKIN
North of 鈥渢he West鈥: Analytical Perspectives on Swedish
Folk Music and S谩mi Joik,听KELSEY A. FULLER
Min鈥檡o-听and Bluegrass: Finding Common Ground in Folk Traditions
from Two Different Worlds,听DANIEL OBLUDA
We Can Sing It Without Doing It: Gender Contestation Among
Nigerian and South African Women in Music,听RUTH OPARA
A Western Perspective on Music from Guanacaste, Costa Rica,
and Cuban Bat谩 Drumming,听MEI-MEY SEGURA-WANG
Musical Dialogues: Arabesk and Hindi Film Music as Mediators
of Aesthetic Discourses,听ALEXANDRA SISO
Volume 26 (2017)
Three Songs
A Study of Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Her Music
by Max Morath
Three Songs
Her Life
The Songs in Her Heart
Six of Those Songs
Conclusions
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Volume 25 (2016)
Biographical Timeline,听CHRISTINA LYNN-CRAIG
George Lynn鈥檚 Westminster Connection,听LARRY BISER
George Lynn: A Life Lived in Music,听ANNA WHEELER GENTRY
Songs My Father Taught Me: An Overview of the Song Cycles Composed by George Lynn
CHRISTINA LYNN-CRAIG
Musician, Educator, Mentor, Friend: A Personal Reminiscence of George Lynn
GREGORY STAPP
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Volume 24 (2015)
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The Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection of Colorado Folklore,听GENE A. CULWELL
Music at the University of Colorado: The Early Years, Part 2,听THOMAS L. RIIS
From 鈥淣ew York State of Mind鈥 to 鈥淣o Man鈥檚 Land鈥:听Billy Joel鈥檚 Songs about American Places
JOSHUA S. DUCHAN
Colorado Stories, Colorado Songs,听LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Peter Dunbaugh Smith. A Cultural History of the First Jazz and Blues听Communities in Jacksonville, Florida, 1896鈥1916:
A Contribution of听African Americans to American Musical Theater,听Reviewed by BRIAN CASEY
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Volume 23 (2014)
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Considering the Other in Indianist Opera: Separation and听Assimilation in Victor Herbert鈥檚 Natoma
ROBERT WATERS
Paul Robeson鈥檚 Iconic Timbre and the Negotiation of Signification,听MELANIE SHAFFER
鈥淛ust as necessary and valuable as any of the regular sciences鈥:听Music at the University of Colorado in Its Early Years
THOMAS L. RIIS
Education Through Music: The Fundamental Ideas,听CHARLES HUBERT FARNSWORTH
Beth E. Levy, Frontier Figures: American Music and the听Mythology of the American West
Reviewed by MATTHEW MUGMON
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Volume 22 (2013)
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William Billings鈥檚 VARIETY WITHOUT METHOD: An Experiment in Modulation,听KARL KROEGER
Forging a Sound Citizenry: Voice Culture and the Embodiment of the Nation,听SCOTT A. CARTER
鈥淥ut Where the West Begins鈥: The Denver Song that Became a听Western Classic听
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Nadia Boulanger, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and American Music,听DEBORAH HAYES
Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ,听Reviewed by JOSEPH R. MATSON
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Volume 21 (2012)
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Serial Minimalist or Minimal Serialist? The Music of John McGuire,听PAUL MILLER
The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and Charles Stern in 1942:
Toward the听Origins of Bernstein as a Dramatic Composer,听LARS HELGERT
Faith and Love in New Hope Valley: A Consideration of Community in听Carlisle Floyd鈥檚 Susannah,听HELEN SMITH
The Second Edition (1837) of William Walker鈥檚 The Southern Harmony,听DAVID MUSIC
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Volume 20 (2011)
Special Oral History Issue
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One on One: Max Roach in Conversation with Kofi Ghanaba,听KWASI AMPENE
Writing and Making Black Music History:听An Interview with SAMUEL A. FLOYD, JR
Discovering American Music:听An Interview with RICHARD CRAWFORD
Making Musicology Modern:听An Interview with CAROL OJA
The American Music Research Center: Some Vignettes from听the Early Dominican College Years听
SISTER MARY DOMINIC RAY, with editorial notes by听WILLIAM KEARNS
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Volume 19 (2010)
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Introduction,听PAUL LAIRD
George Abbott鈥檚 Contribution to Musical Comedy Through the 1950s,听SYLVIA STONER-HAWKINS
鈥淎m I King or Am I Not King?鈥: Conflict, Gender, and听Reconciliation in The King and I,听HSUN LIN
The Actor鈥檚 Voice: The Non-Singing Lead in Broadway Musicals听of the 1950s,听SHARON O鈥機ONNELL CAMPBELL
An Examination of Don Walker鈥檚 Style of Orchestration in The Pajama听Game,
The Most Happy Fella, and The Music Man,听PETER PURIN
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Volume 18 (2009)
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Jean Berger (1909鈥2002): A Biographical Chronology,听LINDA L. GIEDL
Jean Berger: A 鈥淕ood Neighbor鈥 in the United States,听CAROL A. HESS
Composer Meets Critic, Part Two: Selected Excerpts of the Jean Berger/Henry Pleasants Correspondence
with an introduction by LINDA L. GIEDL
In Honor of Jean Berger and His Gifts,听TOM MACCLUSKEY
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Volume听17
Pictorial Edition
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Volume 16
Pictorial Edition
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Volume 15 (2005)
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The 鈥淢yth-Story鈥 of Stephen C. Foster, or听Why His True Story Remains Untold,听DEANE L. ROOT
The Tune GOSPEL TRUMPET:听Its Origin and Transmission in American Tunebooks,听DAVID W. MUSIC
Defining the Sousa March:听Its Formal and Stylistic Constants,听JONATHAN ELKUS
Music Review: Daniel Read, Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony,听edited by Karl Kroeger and Marie Kroeger,听MAXINE FAWCETT-YESKE
Announcement: Fink Lecture Series
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Volume 14 (2004)
Lost in Translation: American Sounds and British Sensibilities
SUSAN C. COOK
The "Black Swan" in England:听Abolition and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
JULIA CHYBOWSKI
"A Strange, Weird Effect":听The Fisk Jubilee Singers in the United States and England
KATIE J. GRABER
"The Dance No Sarabande":听Constant Lambert, The Rio Grande, and the American Exotic
RYAN ROSS
"We Go Together":听Nostalgia, Gender, Class, and the London Reception of Grease: A New '50s Rock 'N' Roll Musical
JENNI VEITCH OLSON
Book Review: Locating East Asia in Western Art Music,听edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau
JAY KEISTER
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Volume 13(2003)
Troubled Island: A Symposium Introduction
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
"Glory听is a Passing Thing": William Grant Still and Langston Hughes听Collaborate on Troubled Island
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
"Sons of Africa, Come Forth": Compositional Approaches of听William Grant Still in the Opera Troubled Island
TAMMY L. KERNODLE
Was Troubled Island Seen by the Critics as a Protest Opera?
GAYLE MURCHISON
Two Aspects of Troubled Island
WAYNE SHIRLEY
An African-American Triptych
EARNEST LAMB
Reverent References: African American Cultural Topics in听William Grant Still's Symphonic "Prayer"
HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.
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Volume 12 (2002)
American Women as Operatic Characters: Puccini's Fanciulla del West听Versus Chadwick's Marietta in The Padrone
MARIANNE BETZ
"Just a Little While to Stay Here": Louis Armstrong and the听Brass Bands of New Orleans
CHARLES KINZER
Leonard Marshall and Early American Psalmody
KARL KROEGER
Normand Lockwood:
听听 听 An Active Final Decade
听听 听 WILLIAM KEARNS and CASSANDRA VOLPE
听 听 听A Singular Composer's Life
听听 听 KAY NORTON
Reviews:
Writing American Indian Music, Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and听Arrangements by Victoria Llindsay Levine
BRENDA ROMERO
Rayner Taylor: Chamber Music, ed. John Metz and听Barbara Bailey-Metz
JOANNE SWENSON-ELDRIDGE
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Volume 11 (2001)
Guittars and Guitars: A Note on a Musical Fashion
ART SCHRADER
Formulating American Operetta in 1924:听Friml's Rose-Marie and Romberg's The Student Prince
WILLIAM A.听EVERETT
Songs and the Audience in Early Movie Musicals
ANTONY JOHN
Book Review:
William B. Bradbury, Esther, the Beautiful Queen, edited by Juanita Karpf
LISA M COOK
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Volume 10 (2000)
Composer Meets Critic: Selected Excerps of the Jean Berger/Henry Pleasants Correspondence, 1962-1971
Music at the Colorado Chautauqua: A Century-Long Tradition
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and MARCELYN H. D'AVIS
Western Themes in Contemporary Rock Music, 1970-2000: A Lyric Analysis
DAVID M. WROBEL
Music Library Landmarks in Colorado
HOWARD B. WALTZ
Brief Collection Descriptions of American Music Research Center Archives
CASSANDRA M. VOLPE
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Volume 8/9 (1998/99)
A Dedication to William Kearns and American Music
ROBERT R. FINK
MUSA: An American Monument
WILLIAM KEARNS
The Glenn Miller Mystery: An Interview with William Suitts and Alan Cass
ARIEL A. DOWNING
Photoplay Music: A Reusable Repertory for Silent Film Scoring, 1914-1929
RODNEY SAUER
Eugen Luening, German American-Musician--The Milwaukee听Germans and die heilige deutsche Kunst (Holy German Art)
ANN B. REAGAN
The Life and Career of Edward Boatner and an Invertory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomberg Center
GISELE GLOVER
Will There Be Yodeling in Heaven?
BART PLATENGA
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Volume 7 (1997)
Special Issue: Longfellow and Music by H. Earle Johnson
Editorial Preface
THOMAS RIIS
Biographical Note and Foreword
BONNIE HEDGES
Longfellow and Music
H. EARLE JOHNSON
听 听 听Introduction
听听 听听Part I. The Musical Longfellows
听听 听听Operas Heard by Longfellow Between the Years 1825 and 1879
听 听 听Part II. The Musical Works Considered
听听 听听Notes
听听 听听Bibliography
听听 听 Chronological List of Works by Longfellow with Musical Settings
听听 听听Musical Compositions Based on Longfellow's Literary Works
听听 听听Alphabetical List of Musical Titles
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Volume 6 (1996)
The Morris E. Dry Collection of the American Popular Music: A Personal Recollection
LEW ROBINSON
Barbra Streisand and the Theatricality of Popular Song: Vocal Technique and a Director's Eye
LINDA POHLY
B. B. King: Analysis of the Artist's Evolving Guitar Technique
JERRY RICHARDSON
Samuel Babcock: A New England Psalmodist Suspended Between Tradition and Reform
LAURIE SAMSEL
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Volume 5 (1995)
Special Issue on the Music of Native Americans
Preface
BRENDA POMERO
Cultural Metaphor and Music: A Syncretic Bicultural Teaching Experience in a Navajo High School
BRUCE COOK
Elements of Continuity in Kwakiutl Traditions
NANCY TESKEY and GORDON BROCK
"Metric Modulation" or Drum Tempo Contrasts in Hopi Traditional Dance
STEVE MULLINS
A Reexamination of the Peji Waci
TARA BROWNER
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), 1876-1938: (Re )discovering The Sun Dance
SUSAN DOMINGUEZ
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Volume 4 (1994)
Remembering Sister Mary Dominic Ray (1913-1994)
THOMAS RIIS
Cecil Effinger and the Musicwritier
LARRY WORSTER
The Church-Gallery Orchestra in New England
KARL KROEGER
John Hill Hewitt: Bard of the Confederacy
N. LEE ORR
The Odyssey of Kurt Weill's "Ulysses Africanus"
JAMES L. ZYCHOWICZ
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Volume 3 (1993)
Remembering Susan Porter: 1941-1993
WILLIAM KEARNS
George Crumb in Prague and Boulder 1992: A Tale of Two Festivals
STEVEN M. BRUNS
"In stilo Mahleriano": Quotation and Allusion in the Music of George Crumb
STEVEN M. BRUNS
A Conversation with George Crumb
THOMAS L. RIIS
The Federal Music Project in Denver: 1935-1941
MARIE KROEGER
Two Colorado Sources of Spanish New Mexican Music
WICTORIA LINDSAY LEVINE
Spanish Mission Music from California: Past, Present and Future Research
JOHN KOEGEL
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Volume 2 (1992)
Why American Music Research?
THOMAS L. RIIS
The Life and Music of Merit Woodruff: An Early American Psalmodist
KARL KROEGER
Music by Black Women Composers at the American Music Research Center
HELEN WALKER-HILL
Early Music Publishing in Denver: The Tolbert R. Ingram Company
NANCY F. CARTER
Women, Nature and Appearance: Themes in Popular Song Texts from the Turn of the Century
DENNIS LORANGER
Performing Anglo-American Opera: Why and How?
SUSAN PORTER
The American Music Research Center: Some Vignettes From The Early Dominican College Years
SISTER MAY DOMINIC RAY
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Volume 1 (1991)
Erich Katz: the Pied Piper Comes To America
CONSTANCE PRIMUS
The "Mythtory" of Stephen C. Foster or Why His True Story Remains Untold
DEANE ROOT
Samuel Felsted of Jamaica
THURSTON DOX
Symposium: "Why American Music?"
WILLIAM KEARNS
听 听 听The Hutchingson Family: An American Tradition in Ninetiinth-Century
听听 听听Popular Music, Linda Davenport
听听 听 American Folk-Song Scholarship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
听听 听听and its Effect on Defining an American Music, Larry Worster
听 听 听The Amrican Wave of the 1930's, Kay Norton
听听 听 American Music Since World War II: Music as a Commodity, Daniel Jones
听听 听 "Darkest America": Some Remarks on Personal and National Identity, Dennis Loranger
Billings at Boulder: Doctoral Seminar Explores His Music
KARL KROEGER
AMRC Collections Enhance Course Offerings
JOANNE SWENSON ELDRIDGE
A Survey of the AMRC's Hillbilly Record Collection
MELODY J. PERKINS
The Normand Lockwood Archive and An Overview of His Career
KAY NORTON
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