American Music articles from September 1999

American Music archives from September 1999

Rethinking Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Led Zeppelin: A Woman's View of Pleasure and Power in Hard Rock.
September 22, 1999... Several times during the performance of "Since I've Been Loving You" in Led Zeppelin's documentary film, The Song Remains the Same,(1) the camera turns its focus away from the stage and out into the crowd in an attempt to document the...

The Use of Habanera Rhythm in Rockabilly Music.
September 22, 1999... What Is Rockabilly? Defining a musical genre remains difficult even when its performers and creators are readily identified with a particular culture, tradition, or geographic region. Among the array of classifications under the heading...

From Music Publishing to MP3: Music and Industry in the Twentieth Century.
September 22, 1999... Like any culture industry in a market economy, the role of the music business is fundamentally to transform its cultural products into financial rewards. This process, of course, has been significantly influenced by the technological advances...

John Cage: Composed in America.(Review)
September 22, 1999... John Cage: Composed in America. Edited by Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 0-226-66056-7 (cloth); ISBN 0-226-66057-5 (pbk.). Pp. x, 286. $45.00 (cloth), $16.95 (pbk.). In the last...

Irving Berlin: American Troubadour.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Irving Berlin: American Troubadour. By Edward Jablonski. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. ISBN 0-8050-4077-3. Pp. 406. $35.00. The surge of interest in American popular song and American music theater over the last few years has...

Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930. By David A. Jasen and Gene Jones. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864742-4. Pp. xxvi, 435. $29.95. The surge of interest in American popular song and American music...

Cecil Effinger: A Colorado Composer.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Cecil Effinger: A Colorado Composer. By Larry Worster. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. (Composers of North America, no. 21.) ISBN 0-8108-3108-2. Pp. xix, 439. $59.00 Most histories of twentieth-century American music tend to focus on...

Harrison Kerr: Portrait of a Twentieth-Century American Composer.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Harrison Kerr: Portrait of a Twentieth-Century American Composer. By Randy B. Kohlenberg. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. (Composers of North America, no. 23.) ISBN 0-8108-3258-5. Pp. xvii, 223. $47.50. Most histories of...

Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. By Ethan Mordden. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-511710-7. Pp. 262. $30.00 (cloth). In this day when a ticket to a Broadway musical can cost nearly $100--and that...