Legacies of Power in American Music

Judith A. Mabary is Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Missouri (Columbia).

Part I: The Performance of Black America
1 Spheres, Progressives, and Slavery: The Long-Lingering Effect of Music and Culture Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Petra Meyer-Frazier 2 Some Thoughts on the Role of Patronage in the History of Jazz
Jeremy Scott Brown 3 The Cox Trio: A Study in Black Show Business
Gene Anderson 4 Jelly’s "Jungle Music": Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Jazz Aesthetics
Lance D. Morrison 5 The Pedagogical Legacies of Three Black Gospel Pioneers: Magnolia Lewis-Butts, Sallie Martin, and Roberta Martin
Kay Norton 6 Beyond Category: Duke Ellington as American Piano Original
Matthew J. Cooper

Part II: Collaborations in Song
7 Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch: Or What an Austro-German Émigré Did in Tinseltown During World War II
James Parsons 8 A Ballad for Our Times: The Siegmeister–Hughes Connection
Linda L. Banister and J. Quentin Kuyper 9 Songs of "Little Dixie": The Shape-Note Hymn Arrangements of Virgil Thomson
David Rayl 10 Traversing Musical Worlds through Image and Sound: Americana on Thomas Hart Benton’s Saturday Night at Tom Benton’s (Decca Records, 1942) and the Album’s Connection to Kansas City, Missouri
Annett C. Richter

Part III: Critiquing the Past
11 Defense of Dwight Bill F. Faucett 12 The Merry Widow: Freedom and Feminism in the Widowhood of Mrs. H.H.A. Beach
Morgan Smith Owen

Part IV: The Analytical Perspective
13 Leitmotifs in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra
Wayne C. Wentzel 14 The Left Hand Always Knows What the Right Hand is Doing
Neil Minturn 15 A Study in Non-Hierarchical Coherence: Jerry Tabor’s lemon; birch
Thomas DeLio 16 Parody and Crumb’s Voices from the Heartland, or Double Voices in Crumb’s American Songbook VII
Peter Lea