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Contents
- 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 Emigre 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