ABSTRACT
This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtured a wide range of scholarship in American music and had a lasting impact on the field. This book brings together scholars who worked with Budds as a colleague, editor, or mentor to carry on his legacy of passionate engagement with America’s rich and varied musical heritage. Ranging through jazz, gospel, Americana, and film music to American classical, and addressing music’s social contexts and analytical structure, the research gathered here attests to the diversity of the mosaic that is American music and the numerous scholarly approaches that have been taken to the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|135 pages
The Performance of Black America
chapter Chapter 1|19 pages
Spheres, Progressives, and Slavery
chapter Chapter 4|15 pages
Jelly's “Jungle Music”:
chapter Chapter 5|18 pages
The Pedagogical Legacies of Three Black Gospel Pioneers
part II|112 pages
Collaborations in Song
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch
chapter Chapter 9|26 pages
Songs of “Little Dixie”:
chapter Chapter 10|44 pages
Traversing Musical Worlds Through Image and Sound:
part III|27 pages
Critiquing the Past
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
The Merry Widow: Freedom and Feminism in the Widowhood of Mrs. H.H.A. Beach
part IV|84 pages
The Analytical Perspective