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ISAM
Monographs
edited by Ellie Hisama and Evan Rapport,
(ISAM, 2005). $10 Ellie M. Hisama, Afro-Asian Hip Hop; David G.
Pier, Live Hip Hop in New York; Jonathan Toubin, Hip Hop Music in Downtown
Manhattan; Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Gender Dynamics in the Film Anne B.
Real; Evan Rapport, On
the Brooklyn-based Rapper Sensational; Robert Wood, A Life in the Day of
Benjamin Andre; Ejima Baker, Exploring Reggaetón; Carl Clements;
Transcultural Interchange Between Indian Music & Hip Hop
edited by Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken, (University of A collection of critical
essays surveying the rich mosaic of Caribbean music styles in
America's largest, most diverse urban center. Includes the
following essays: Ruth Glasser, "Buscanda
Ambiente: Puerto Rican Musicians in New York City,
1917-1940"; Peter Manuel, "Representations of
New York City in Latin Music"; Paul Austerlitz,
"From Transplant to Transnational Circuit: Merengue
in New York"; Juan Flores, "Recapturing History:
The Puerto Rican Roots of Hip Hop Culture"; Donald
Hill, "'I am Happy Just to be in this Sweet Land of Liberty':
The New York City Calypso Craze of the 1930s and 1940s"; Philip
Kasinitz, "Community Dramatized, Community Contested: The Politics
of Celebration in the Brooklyn Carnival"; Ray Allen and Les Slater,
"Steel Pan Grows in Brooklyn: Trinidadian Music and Cultural
Identity"; Gage Averill, "Moving the Big Apple: Tabou
Combo's Diasporic Dreams"; and Lois Wilcken, "The Changing
Hats of Haitian Staged Folklore in New York City." Additional
ISAM Titles
Reexamines the roots and growth of black
musical theatre in a critical decade, 1895-1905, focusing on possible links
to the ring shout and other African-based traditions. Elliott Carter: In Conversation with
Enzo Restagno for Settembre Musica 1989 A stimulating conversation about music and
culture with one of America's leading composers. The Music of Harry Partch: A
Descriptive Catalog Besides a systematic catalog raisonné of
the unique musical output of Partch, McGeary offers a biographical outline, a
bibliography of writings about Partch, and a discography. American Music Before 1865 in Print and
on Records: A Biblio-Discography A much expanded, up-to-date version,
compiled by a well-known bibliographer, of a prize-winning reference work
first published in 1976. 21st-Century Musical
Instruments: Hardward and Software
A respected composer and president of the
Society for Electroacoustic Music United States, Appleton teaches at
Dartmouth College. There, with two colleagues, he invented the Synclavier,
which is among the new instruments discussed in this monograph. Afro-American Music, South Africa, and
Apartheid A renowned, versatile musicologist—known
in recent years especially for his popular-music studies—turns his attention
to South Africa. Hamm traces the odyssey of American popular music there from
minstrel show to disco. The Reception of Jazz in America: A New
View The author of The Making of Jazz, among
other books on jazz, challenges the notion that Europeans first acknowledged
the significance of jazz and wrote about it supportively. The Player-Piano Music of Conlon
Nancarrow: An Analysis of Selected Studies A detailed analysis, in lucid prose with
many music examples, of the unique player-piano studies of an extraordinary
composer. The principal works discussed are all commercially available in
scores and recordings. A Searcher's Path: A Composer's Way An illuminating and revealing pair of
essays by an articulate and distinguished American composer. Reflections and Research on Ragtime "Ragtime's Unanswered Questions"
proposes topics for future research; "New York Ragtime: A Guided
Tour" rambles through the venues of pre-World War I ragtime. With maps,
music examples, and an introduction by Max Morath. The Music of Henry Cowell: A
Descriptive Catalogue A definitive catalog of the music of a
highly original and prolific composer. For almost 1,000 works, this catalog
supplies date and circumstances of composition, instrumentation, text
sources, details of first performance, locations and description of
manuscripts, and publication information. Jerome Kern in Edwardian London A revealing account of Kern's early years
in London. Includes much new information on Kern's songs, lyricists, producers,
publishers, and friends. With illustrations and a complete list of songs from
1901 to 1910. Confederate Sheet-Music Imprints This catalog cites over 800 pieces of
sheet music published during the Confederacy, with full bibliographic data,
library locations, and indexes. "…invaluable to any serious student of
Civil War Music." (Civil War Book Exchange) From Print to Plastic: Publishing and
Promoting America's Popular Music, 1900-1980 A former vice president of BMI charts the
growth of the American popular-music business. The birth of the Songwriters
Protective Association, the great ASCAP-radio war of 1941, the payola scandal
of the late 1950s—all are covered in revealing detail. "…a fascinating
read." (Variety) Ives: A Survey of the Music This acclaimed study of Charles Ives's
music is reprinted, with addenda, from the 1977 edition by Oxford University
Press. "…fills a remaining gap [in the Ives literature]: …serves as a
useful, uncomplicated handbook to a complicated output." (Music &
Letters) The Life and Death of a Small Magazine
(Modern Music, 1924-1945) The editor's inside story of modern
music's influential "little magazine," with a heady mixture of
reminiscences and reports, excerpts from Modern Music articles, and
unpublished letters and photographs. "…makes evident the vigour and
rigour of [Lederman's] mind and the passion and compassion of her
heart." (Wilfrid Mellers in the Musical Times). Wallingford Riegger: Two Essays in
Musical Biography "The life or the work?" explores
the role of biographical studies in illuminating a composer’s work;
"Creating an identity" examines the first fifty years of Riegger’s
life. Writings about Henry Cowell: An
Annotated Bibliography An annotated list of 1,359 articles
tracing the extraordinary career of Henry Cowell. The Music of Henry Ainsworth's Psalter
(Amsterdam, 1612) The 39 tunes in Ainsworth's
psalter—brought to the Plymouth Colony by the Pilgrims—are analyzed and
reproduced in facsimile and transcription. "…Its detail [is] extensive,
accurate, and perceptive." (Notes) The Phonograph and Our Musical Life:
Proceedings of a Centennial Conference, 7-10 December 1977 Explores the humanistic impact of
recording on audience, composer, performer, scholar, critic, and members of
other media. "…contains all sorts of interesting material." (Stereo
Review) Richard Franko Goldman: Selected Essays
and Reviews, 1948-1968 Reprints major essays and reviews
originally published in the Juilliard Review, The Musical Quarterly,
and other journals. "…With these informed, cogent, and well-developed
gems…Goldman has contributed substantially to a small but excellent body of
music criticism." (Choice) A Tale of Two Cities: Memphis Rock and
New Orleans Roll Focuses on the two most important Southern
recording centers during the transition from rhythm-and-blues and
country-and-western to rock and roll. The New Worlds of Edgard Varèse: Papers
and Discussion from a Varèse Symposium at the City University of New York Contains "On Edgard Varèse" by
Elliot Carter; "Ionisation: The Function of Timbre in its Formal
and Temporal Organization" by Chou Wen-chung; and "Notes on
Varèse's Rhythm" by Robert P. Morgan. A Checklist of Four-Shape Shape-Note
Tunebooks A unique tool that identifies and locates
almost 300 American shape-note tunebooks of the antebellum era. Two Men for Modern Music Sketches the contributions made in the
early twentieth century by E. Robert Schmitz, founder of the Pro Musica
Society, and Herman Langinger, engraver and printer of New Music Quarterly.
"…a fascinating story of two little-known champions of new music."
(Choice) Music in America and American Music:
Two Views of the Scene Informative lectures on various aspects of
American music delivered by Lowens as Senior Research Fellow at ISAM. The
bibliography by Elizabeth Aubrey and Margery Lowens lists over 500 books,
articles, editions, and reviews by a leading scholar of American music. The Writings of Henry Cowell: A
Descriptive Bibliography A classified and annotated list of over
200 books, articles, reviews, prefaces to published music, and record liner
notes written by the composer. "…aids assessment of this generous and
versatile man's work." (Musical Times) The Music of the Bay Psalm Book: 9th
Edition (1698) Contains facsimiles, transcriptions, and a
discussion of the thirteen psalm-tunes added to the Bay Psalm Book (the first
music printed in North America). "…useful and accurate." (The
Hymn) American Studies and American
Musicology: A Point of View and a Case in Point "…Not only defines the essential
character of American musical studies with admirable clarity and conceptual
depth, but also contributes significantly toward delineating a new profile for
American musicology." (Notes) Doctoral Dissertations in American
Music: A Classified Bibliography Surveys 1,226 dissertations in music and
other disciplines in which American music studies have been carried out.
"…This listing is more than handy; it is essential for the widest access
to American material in dissertation format." (American Reference
Books Annual). United States Music: Sources of
Bibliography and Collective Biography "…All students and librarians will
appreciate the clarity of arrangement, straightforward and uncomplicated
annotations, the excellent index, and the very fresh and honest
approach." (Library Journal) Additional books From the New World (1994) Free with purchase of an ISAM Monograph, $5
if purchased alone An exceptionally handsome, amply
annotated, 60-page program book that accompanied the Brooklyn Philharmonic's
celebration of Dvorak's American experience. Includes essays by Michael
Beckerman, Joseph Horowitz, Adrienne Fried Block, John Mack Faragher, and
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. U.S. Bicentennial Music I Physiology of the Opera by Scrici, with new introduction by D.W. Krummel,
1981 (ISAM Special Publications no. 2) $8 Studying American Music: With a
Bibliography of the Published Writings of Richard Crawford American Music Recordings: A
Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers A project of the Institute for Studies in
American Music for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc. To place
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