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Making the March King : John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893

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In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than seeing the music as a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual and potentially subversive meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. A scholarly work!

Then Sings My Soul

Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them.
 
Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.

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Nearly 40 years in the making, this book documents every aspect of the March King's band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings and radio and the challenges band members faced during rigorous tours across America and Europe and on their 1911 trip around the world. Enhanced by more than 120 images and photographs, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa also contains six statistical appendixes detailing where the band played, what it played, a complete list of musicians, instrumentation of the band, program listings and a discography. A truly thorough reference for lovers of Sousa and his marches.

Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa, The

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Waring, Virginia. Foreward by Robert ShawPublished by University of Illinois Pr, Urbana. Copyright 1997.  A biography of the famous bandleader, choral directory, music publisher (Shawnee Press), and inventory (the Waring blender).  An intimate bio- graphy by Mrs. Waring; with a CD of selections.

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

Cray, Ed. Published by Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. Copyright 1992.  Extensively revised edition of this collection of bawdy American folksongs, including 40 more songs than the first edition.  Full texts of 125 songs, with melodies for most, and annotations for all.

Erotic Muse

Deffaa, Chip. Published by Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. Copyright 1996.  Profiles the music and struggles of Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Little Jimmy Scott, Charles Brown, Floyd Dixon, and Jimmy Witherspoon.  Contains over40 photographs.

Blue Rhythms, Six Lives in Rhythm

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