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Volume 24 • Number 2

Summer 2006


From the Editor 131


Articles

The Enigma of Jimmy Yancey’s Early Years: Notes Toward a Biography 133
JANE M. BOWERS  
   
From New France to a “Millennial Mall”: Identity Paradigms in Istvan Anhalt’s Operas 172
GORDON E. SMITH  
   
Consuming Nature: The Grateful Dead’s Performance of an Anticommercial Counterculture 194
NADYA ZIMMERMAN  

Book Reviews

Ken Stephenson, What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis 217
JOHN S. COTNER  
   
Michael B. Beckerman, New Worlds of Dvorák: Searching in America for the Composer’s Inner Life 221
ARNOLD SCHWAB  
   
Annette Davidson, Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s 225
JULIE HUBBERT  
   
H. Wiley Hitchcock, Charles Ives: 129 Songs 228
DENISE VON GLAHN  
   
Tony Russell, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921–1942 231
KIP LORNELL  
   
Geoffrey Block, Richard Rodgers 233
JAMES LEVE  
   
Vicki Ohl, Fine and Dandy: The Life and Work of Kay Swift 236
EMMA ROHDE-FRANK  
   
Stephen A. Marini, Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture; David W. Stowe, How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans 238
MATT MEACHAM  
   
Ed Cray, Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie 241
TED OLSON  
   
Charles A. Perrone and Christopher Dunn, eds., Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization  
WALTER A. CLARK 243

Recording Reviews

Fats Waller: The 1935 Transcriptions 247
PAUL S. MACHLIN  
   
Charles Ives, Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–4 249
THOMAS L. RIIS  
   
Richard Toensing, Responsoria 251
WILLIAM K. KEARNS  
   
Craig Russell, Rhapsody for Horn and Orchestra. Middle Earth. Gate City—A Methodist Hymn 254
WILLIAM K. KEARNS  

Multimedia Reviews

More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894–1931 256
DANIEL GOLDMARK  
   
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues—A Musical Journey 259
CHARLES CARSON  
   
Moog 264
MARK J. BUTLER  

 

 
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