AMRC Journal
ճAmerican Music Research Center Journalwaspublished annually from 1991 through 2019 and includedtopics of general interest about American music, particularly in subject areas relevant to the AMRCCollections.
All volumes (1-28) are available online below, and physical copies (except for volumes 2 and 10) can be purchasedby completing an order formhere.
Volume 28(2019)
American Progressives of the 1970s: A Colloquy,
JAY KEISTER, JOHN J. SHEINBAUM, JEREMY L. SMITH
Black Prog: Soul, Funk, Intellect and the Progressive Sideof Black Music of the 1970s,
JAY KEISTER
There’s an Opera Out on the Turnpike: Springsteen’s Early Epicsand the Fantasy of the Real,
JOHN J. SHEINBAUM
Reading Carole King’s Tapestry as a Penelopean Retellingof the Homeric Odyssey,
JEREMY L. SMITH
Letters from Nadia Boulanger to Lydia Loudon in the Collectionof the American Music Research Center,
JOAN S. SEGA
The Suffolk Symphonic Orchestra and Society Papers,
GISELE SCHIERHORST
Volume 27 (2018)
Introduction,BRENDA M. ROMERO
The Project Description,KELSEY A. FULLER
Meaning, Melody, and YouTube in Irish and Tibetan
Traditional Musics,MASON BROWN
“Lao Duang Duen” Lost in Translation: A New Perspective on
the Southeast Asian Classical Arts,BENJAMIN PONGTEP CEFKIN
North of “the West”: Analytical Perspectives on Swedish
Folk Music and Sámi Joik,KELSEY A. FULLER
Min’yo-and Bluegrass: Finding Common Ground in Folk Traditions
from Two Different Worlds,DANIEL OBLUDA
We Can Sing It Without Doing It: Gender Contestation Among
Nigerian and South African Women in Music,RUTH OPARA
A Western Perspective on Music from Guanacaste, Costa Rica,
and Cuban Batá Drumming,MEI-MEY SEGURA-WANG
Musical Dialogues: Arabesk and Hindi Film Music as Mediators
of Aesthetic Discourses,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
Volume 25 (2016)
Biographical Timeline,CHRISTINA LYNN-CRAIG
George Lynn’s Westminster Connection,LARRY BISER
George Lynn: A Life Lived in Music,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
Volume 24 (2015)
The Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection of Colorado Folklore,GENE A. CULWELL
Music at the University of Colorado: The Early Years, Part 2,THOMAS L. RIIS
From “New York State of Mind” to “No Man’s Land”:Billy Joel’s Songs about American Places
JOSHUA S. DUCHAN
Colorado Stories, Colorado Songs,LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Peter Dunbaugh Smith. A Cultural History of the First Jazz and BluesCommunities in Jacksonville, Florida, 1896–1916:
A Contribution ofAfrican Americans to American Musical Theater,Reviewed by BRIAN CASEY
Volume 23 (2014)
Considering the Other in Indianist Opera: Separation andAssimilation in Victor Herbert’s Natoma,
ROBERT WATERS
Paul Robeson’s Iconic Timbre and the Negotiation of Signification,MELANIE SHAFFER
“Just as necessary and valuable as any of the regular sciences”:Music at the University of Colorado in Its Early Years
THOMAS L. RIIS
Education Through Music: The Fundamental Ideas,CHARLES HUBERT FARNSWORTH
Beth E. Levy, Frontier Figures: American Music and theMythology of the American West
Reviewed by MATTHEW MUGMON
Volume 22 (2013)
William Billings’s VARIETY WITHOUT METHOD: An Experiment in Modulation,KARL KROEGER
Forging a Sound Citizenry: Voice Culture and the Embodiment of the Nation,SCOTT A. CARTER
“Out Where the West Begins”: The Denver Song that Became aWestern Classic
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Nadia Boulanger, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and American Music,DEBORAH HAYES
Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ,Reviewed by JOSEPH R. MATSON
Volume 21 (2012)
Serial Minimalist or Minimal Serialist? The Music of John McGuire,PAUL MILLER
The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and Charles Stern in 1942:
Toward theOrigins of Bernstein as a Dramatic Composer,LARS HELGERT
Faith and Love in New Hope Valley: A Consideration of Community inCarlisle Floyd’s Susannah,HELEN SMITH
The Second Edition (1837) of William Walker’s The Southern Harmony,DAVID MUSIC
Volume 20 (2011)
Special Oral History Issue
One on One: Max Roach in Conversation with Kofi Ghanaba,KWASI AMPENE
Writing and Making Black Music History:An Interview with SAMUEL A. FLOYD, JR
Discovering American Music:An Interview with RICHARD CRAWFORD
Making Musicology Modern:An Interview with CAROL OJA
The American Music Research Center: Some Vignettes fromthe Early Dominican College Years
SISTER MARY DOMINIC RAY, with editorial notes byWILLIAM KEARNS
Volume 19 (2010)
Introduction,PAUL LAIRD
George Abbott’s Contribution to Musical Comedy Through the 1950s,SYLVIA STONER-HAWKINS
“Am I King or Am I Not King?”: Conflict, Gender, andReconciliation in The King and I,HSUN LIN
The Actor’s Voice: The Non-Singing Lead in Broadway Musicalsof the 1950s,SHARON O’CONNELL CAMPBELL
An Examination of Don Walker’s Style of Orchestration in The PajamaGame,
The Most Happy Fella, and The Music Man,PETER PURIN
Volume 18 (2009)
Jean Berger (1909–2002): A Biographical Chronology,LINDA L. GIEDL
Jean Berger: A “Good Neighbor” in the United States,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,TOM MACCLUSKEY
Volume17
Pictorial Edition
Volume 16
Pictorial Edition
Volume 15 (2005)
The “Myth-Story” of Stephen C. Foster, orWhy His True Story Remains Untold,DEANE L. ROOT
The Tune GOSPEL TRUMPET:Its Origin and Transmission in American Tunebooks,DAVID W. MUSIC
Defining the Sousa March:Its Formal and Stylistic Constants,JONATHAN ELKUS
Music Review: Daniel Read, Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony,edited by Karl Kroeger and Marie Kroeger,MAXINE FAWCETT-YESKE
Announcement: Fink Lecture Series
Volume 14 (2004)
SUSAN C. COOK
JULIA CHYBOWSKI
KATIE J. GRABER
RYAN ROSS
JENNI VEITCH OLSON
JAY KEISTER
Volume 13(2003)
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
TAMMY L. KERNODLE
GAYLE MURCHISON
WAYNE SHIRLEY
EARNEST LAMB
HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.
Volume 12 (2002)
MARIANNE BETZ
CHARLES KINZER
BRIAN LOCKE
KARL KROEGER
Normand Lockwood:
WILLIAM KEARNS and CASSANDRA VOLPE
KAY NORTON
Reviews:
BRENDA ROMERO
JOANNE SWENSON-ELDRIDGE
Volume 11 (2001)
ART SCHRADER
WILLIAM A.EVERETT
ANTONY JOHN
LISA M COOK
Volume 10 (2000)
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and MARCELYN H. D'AVIS
DAVID M. WROBEL
HOWARD B. WALTZ
CASSANDRA M. VOLPE
Volume 8/9 (1998/99)
ROBERT R. FINK
WILLIAM KEARNS
ARIEL A. DOWNING
RODNEY SAUER
ANN B. REAGAN
GISELE GLOVER
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BART PLATENGA
Volume 7 (1997)
Special Issue: Longfellow and Music by H. Earle Johnson
THOMAS RIIS
BONNIE HEDGES
Longfellow and Music
H. EARLE JOHNSON
Volume 6 (1996)
LYNN ABBOTT
LEW ROBINSON
LINDA POHLY
JERRY RICHARDSON
LAURIE SAMSEL
Volume 5 (1995)
Special Issue on the Music of Native Americans
BRENDA POMERO
Cultural Metaphor and Music: A Syncretic Bicultural Teaching Experience in a Navajo High School
BRUCE COOK
NANCY TESKEY and GORDON BROCK
STEVE MULLINS
TARA BROWNER
SUSAN DOMINGUEZ
Volume 4 (1994)
THOMAS RIIS
LARRY WORSTER
KARL KROEGER
N. LEE ORR
JAMES L. ZYCHOWICZ
Volume 3 (1993)
WILLIAM KEARNS
STEVEN M. BRUNS
STEVEN M. BRUNS
THOMAS L. RIIS
MARIE KROEGER
WICTORIA LINDSAY LEVINE
JOHN KOEGEL
Volume 2 (1992)
THOMAS L. RIIS
KARL KROEGER
HELEN WALKER-HILL
NANCY F. CARTER
DENNIS LORANGER
SUSAN PORTER
SISTER MAY DOMINIC RAY
Volume 1 (1991)
CONSTANCE PRIMUS
DEANE ROOT
THURSTON DOX
WILLIAM KEARNS
The Hutchingson Family: An American Tradition in Ninetiinth-Century
Popular Music, Linda Davenport
American Folk-Song Scholarship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
and its Effect on Defining an American Music, Larry Worster
The Amrican Wave of the 1930's, Kay Norton
American Music Since World War II: Music as a Commodity, Daniel Jones
"Darkest America": Some Remarks on Personal and National Identity, Dennis Loranger
KARL KROEGER
JOANNE SWENSON ELDRIDGE
MELODY J. PERKINS
KAY NORTON