American Music articles from June 1996

American Music archives from June 1996

The convivial side of Scottish psalm tunes.
June 22, 1996... Most persons today think of Scottish psalm tunes as being rather somber, dignified melodies suited only to metrical psalmody. Consequently the discovery a few years ago of an eighteenth-century manuscript tunebook from southeastern Pennsylvania...

Jim Crow, demon of disorder.
June 22, 1996... Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-60) likely first "jumped" what became his signature song on September 22, 1830, in Louisville, Kentucky.(1) By early the next year "Jim Crow" was established as an audience favorite, a song that propelled Rice to...

The World War I Army bandsman: a diary account by Philip James.
June 22, 1996... Only a few accounts reveal the activities of U.S. bands and bandsmen during World War I, particularly how the bands developed, functioned, and fit into the new conscription army. From 1905 until his death Philip James (1890-1975) kept a...

The Carter Family on border radio.
June 22, 1996... The Carter Family is one of the most famous recording groups to emerge from the American country music scene of the 1920s. Their recording career lasted fourteen years (1927-41), included eighteen trips into the recording studio, and left a...

Putting Popular Music in Its Place.
June 22, 1996... By Charles Hamm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-47198-2 (cloth). Pp. xii, 390. $59.95. In his opening address to the 1983 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Charles Hamm alluded...

American Musical Life in Context and Practice to 1865.
June 22, 1996... Ed. by James R. Heintze. Essays in American Music, 1; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1583. New York: Garland, 1994. ISBN 0-8153-08167. Pp. x, 366. $57. This volume is the first in a Garland series, edited by James R. Heintze...

The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890-1930.
June 22, 1996... By Karen J. Blair. Philanthropic Studies. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994. ISBN 0-253-31192-6. Pp. x, 259. $29.95. In the Ladies Home Journal of May 1905, former president Grover Cleveland attacked the woman whose "restless...

Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz.
June 22, 1996... By Richard Kennedy. Foreword by Steve Allen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-253-33136-6. Pp. xx, 233. $24.95. What would our view of European art and music history be if we had all the extant print references to Beethoven...

The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire: Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.
June 22, 1996... Ed. by Frank J. Cipolla and Donald Hunsberger. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1994. ISBN 1-878822-46-2. Pp. vi, 312. $39.50. The Eastman Wind Ensemble was founded in 1952 by Frederick Fennell as an attempt to reform some...

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.
June 22, 1996... By Tricia Rose. Music Culture series. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, published by the University Press of New England, 1994. ISBN 0-8195-5271-2 (cloth), 0-8195-6275-0 (pbk.). Pp. xvi, 237. $35 (cloth), $14.95 (pbk). Black Noise:...

Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas.
June 22, 1996... By Barry Shank. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England, 1994. ISBN 0-8195-6276-0 (cloth); ISBN 0-8195-6276-9 (pbk.). Pp. xv, 294. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (pbk.). The reader of Dissonant...

Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs.
June 22, 1996... By Barre Toelken. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. ISBN 0-252-02134-7. Pp. xiii, 189. $32.95. From a literary perspective, the expressive vernacular form referred to as "folk song" manifests one of the classic flaws of bad prose:...

Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music.
June 22, 1996... By Bruno Nettl. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. ISBN 0-252-02135-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-06468-2 (pbk.). Pp. xiii, 170. $35.00 (cloth); $12.95 (pbk.). Heartland U. is a fictional university, made up by Bruno Nettl from features of...

Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington.
June 22, 1996... Dick Hyman, piano. Liner notes by Leonard Feather. Reference Recordings RR-50CD. These days when people discuss "jazz repertory," they do not usually mean Body and Soul or Muskrat Ramble. Instead they refer to the practice of re-creating...

Dick Hyman: From the Age of Swing.
June 22, 1996... Dick Hyman, piano; Phil Bodner, alto saxophone; Urbie Green, trombone; Milt Hinton, bass; Butch Miles, drums; Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar; Joe Temperley, baritone saxophone; Frank Wess, tenor saxophone; Joe Wilder, trumpet. Liner notes by Richard...

Miriam Gideon Retrospective.(Constantine Cassolas, Speculum Musicae, Eleanor Clark, New York Camerata, Christine Schadeberg, Jubal Trio, William Sharp)
June 22, 1996... Steeds of Darkness for tenor and chamber ensemble. Constantine Cassolas, tenor; members of Speculum Musicae. Suite for Clarinet and Piano. Sheldon Berkowitz, clarinet; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano. The Shooting Starres Attend Thee for soprano and...

First Program in Standard Time.(New York Composers Orchestra)
June 22, 1996... Anthony Braxton. 90 + (30, 32, 139) + (108c, 108d). Robin Holcomb. First Program in Standard Time. Wayne Horvitz. New Waltz. Elliott Sharp. Skew. Lenny Pickett. Dance Musicior Composers Orchestra. Wayne Horvitz. Paper Money. Bobby Previte....

Snow in June.(Tan Dun, Nieuw Ensemble, Ed Spanjaard, Arditti String Quartet, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Talujon Percussion Quartet)
June 22, 1996... Circle with Four Trios, Conductor, and Audience. Nieuw Ensemble; Ed Spanjaard, cond. Eight Colors for string quartet. The Arditti String Quartet (Irvine Arditti and David Alberman, violins; Garth Knox, viola; Rohan de Saram, cello). In...

Nueva Espana: Close Encounters in the New World, 1590-1690.(Juan de Araujo, Pedro Bermudez, Juan Garcia de Zespiedes, Boston Camerata, Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble, Schola Cantorum of Boston, Women's Choir of Les Amis de la Sagesse, Joel Cohen)
June 22, 1996... Gregorian chant and music by Juan de Araujo, Pedro Bermudez, Juan Perez Bocanegra, Pablo Bruna, Gaspar Fernandez, Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia, Don Juan de Lienas, Alonso Lobo, Santiago de Murcia, Juan Guiterrez de Padilla, Lucas Ruis de...

Masterpieces of Mexican Polyphony.(Hernando Franco, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Francisco Lopez Capillas, Antonio de Salazar, Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell)
June 22, 1996... Music by Hernando Franco, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Francisco Lopez Capillas, and Antonio de Salazar. Westminster Cathedral Choir; James O'Donnell, coed. Liner notes by Bruno Turner. 1990. Hyperion CDA66330. The musical celebrations...

The Now and Present Flute.(Patricia Spencer, Linda Hall)
June 22, 1996... Patricia Spencer, flute; Linda Hall, piano. George Perle. Monody I. Louise Talma. Conversations. Arthur Kreiger. Intimate Exchanges. Elliott Carter. Scrivo in vento. Pierre Boulez. Sonatine. Shirish Korde. Tenderness of Cranes. Stephen Jaffe....