Table of 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 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

About the Author

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