Reading List
Before the start of the Institute, participants will complete some reading and listening assigned by seminar leaders. All explicitly highlight questions of method and storytelling while introducing some repertoires that will be discussed during the Institute’s academic sessions. The list below has not yet been finalized, but it represents the kinds of thought that will be brought together. Once participants have been selected, a final reading list will be published.
Core Readings
Ahlquist, Karen. “Balance of Power: Music as Art and Social Class in the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Rethinking American Music, edited by Tara Browner and Thomas Riis, 7-33. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
André, Naomi, and Denise Von Glahn. Introduction to the Colloquy “Shadow Culture Narratives: Race, Gender, and American Music Historiography.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 73, no. 3 (2020): 711-717.
Diamond, Beverley. “Purposefully Reflecting on Tradition and Modernity.” In Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine and Dylan Robinson, 240-257. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2019.
McGinty, Doris Evans. “Black Women in the Music of Washington, D.C., 1900-20.” In New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, edited by Josephine Wright with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., 409-450. Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 1992.
Morrison, Matthew D. “Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72, no. 3 (2019): 781-823.
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans, 3rd edn., 231-44. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Wong, Deborah. Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, 1-53. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
More Resources
Blim, Dan. “Historical Records: Reissuing as a Cultural Practice in Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.” Journal of the Society for American Music 17 (2023): 178–203.
Burford, Mark. Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Cawein, Elizabeth. “We Built This City… On a Bold Musical Identity.” TedX Memphis. YouTube Video, 5 June 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4d0rOlo6Yc
Enriquez, Sophia. “Canciones de las Apalaches: Latinx Music, Migration, and Belonging in Appalachia.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 2021.
Eyerly, Sarah. Moravian Soundscapes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Fosler-Lussier, Danielle. Music on the Move. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Open-access book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/m613n040s
Giddens, Rhiannon, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell. Songs of Our Native Daughters. Smithsonian Folkways SFW40232, 2019.
Goodman, Glenda. Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Johinke, Rebecca. “Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Punk Music Walking Tours in New York City.” Tourist Studies 18, no. 3 (2018): 315-331.
Johnson, Stevie (Dr. View). Fire in Little Africa. Documentary film. YouTube Video, 12 July 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn5M0QHlmXM.
Katz, Mark. Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Lingold, Mary Caton. African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Locks, Damon. “Melodies in Gold, Dipped in Sunlight: A Performance-Lecture.” Portable Gray 5, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 107-117.
Minks, Amanda. Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Morgan-Ellis, Esther. “Learning Habits and Attitudes in the Revivalist Old-Time Community of Practice.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education no. 221 (Summer 2019): 29–57.
Mundy, Rachel. “Evolutionary Categories and Musical Style from Adler to America.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 67, no. 3 (2014): 735-768.
Muñoz, José Esteban. “The Wildness of the Punk Rock Commons.” South Atlantic Quarterly 117, no. 3 (2018): 653-658.
Music of Asian America Research Center, “Asian America in 22 Songs.” Online resource, 2022. https://asianamericanmusic.org/learning/22songs/
Music of the United States (MUSA), an NEH-funded series of scholarly editions published under the auspices of the American Musicological Society. For example:
• vol. 11, Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notation and Arrangements, ed. Victoria Lindsay Levine
• vol. 24, Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band. Complete Recorded Works in Transcription, ed. John J. Joyce, Jr., Bruce Boyd Raeburn, and Anthony M. Cummings
• vol. 27, Joseph Rumshinsky: Di goldene kale (1923), ed. Michael Ochs
Sakakeeny, Matt. “New Orleans Music as a Circulatory System.” Black Music Research Journal 31, no. 2 (2011): 291-325.
Sapoznik, Henry, Dick Spottswood, and David Giovannoni, compilers. Protobilly: The Minstrel and Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892–2017. JSP Records, JSPS-202, 2019.