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...Gerald Thompson Musical and Literary Influences on Owen Wister s The Virginian Gerald Thompson Most scholars agree that Owen Wister s The Virginian played a key role in fixing the image of the Cowboy Hero in the American mind. Wister s hero embodied many aspects of the familiar stereotype: he...

...P. F. Baum Musical Influence on American Poetry . By Lenhart Charmenz S. : Athens : The University of Georgia Press , [ 1956 ]. Pp. xiii , 336 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 269 Professor Hulbert considers the epithet evolutionary...

...Alan K. Manchester The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener . By Sessions Roger . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1950 . Pp. 127 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly two of the best are Vision...

...J. E. Vacha Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Posterity Was Just Around the Corner: The Influence of the Depression on the Development of the American Musical Theater in the Thirties J. E. Vacha i The Great Depression of the 1930 s caught the American musical theater...

... Opera, 89). See also Anne- gret Fauser, ‘‘L’art de l’allusion musicale’’ The Art of Musical Allusion Avant-Scène Opéra: Panurge et Le Cid, no. 161 (September–October 1994): 126–29. The allusion to Robert le Diable was picked up by the critics of the première and discussed in their reviews...

...Matthew Burtner Climate change music employs changing environmental conditions as instruments and procedures for music composition and performance. Using a combination of musical analysis and field journals to reveal methods of active listening and composing with climate change, this article shows...

...Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective The Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective is a group of friends who listen to music together and is named after a bar in Pittsburgh where the collective was conceived. In this article we consider ways by which music might be a mode of planning opposed...

...Don Cusic Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Don Cusic Country Green: The Money in Country Music In 1979 Wal-Mart sold one billion dollars worth of merchandise in its 230 stores; by 1989 there were 1,402 stores, with sales total­ ing $8.1 billion. These simple facts also per­...

...Curtis W. Ellison Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Curtis W. Ellison Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music It s Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The date is 22 Janu­ ary 1994, and country music fans, artists, family, friends...

...Michael Kurek; Cecelia Tichi Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Michael Kurek and Cecelia Tichi Country Music and the Contemporary Composer: The Case of Paul Martin Zonn In 1981, Joel Krosnick, cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, commissioned a work from composer Paul Martin...

...David Sanjek Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 David Sanjek Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising Over the Mystery Train: The Complex Construction of Country Music Somebody told me when I came to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here We re all sure that you...

...Vivien Green Fryd Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Vivien Green Fryd The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices : Thomas Hart Benton s Sources of Country Music In December 1934, Time magazine applauded Thomas Hart Benton as a Regionalist painter whose dynamic narrative, figurative paint­...

...Ronnie Pugh Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Ronnie Pugh Mecca for the Country Music Scholar l^ownstairs in one of America s most fa­ mous tourist attractions, Nashville s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, is housed an unmatched collection of research materi­ als...

...Teresa Goddu Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Teresa Goddu Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music Cecelia Tichi: But you re talking about country. I mean, I ve heard some of those traditional old songs you have called Appalachian dead-baby songs. So...

...Cecelia Tichi Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Cecelia Tichi Country Music, Seriously: An Interview with Bill C. Malone Since the 1960s, Bill C. Malone s name has been synonymous with country music studies. His lifelong love affair" with the music re­ sulted first in the 1968...

...Christopher Metress Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Christopher Metress Sing Me a Song about Ramblin Man: Visions and Revisions of Hank Williams in Country Music To get there you take I-65 straight south out of Nashville. The ride is good and gentle, and before you know it you...

...Richard A. Peterson Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Richard A. Peterson The Dialectic of Hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music ^Conventional histories of twentieth-cen­ tury country music trace a virtually linear development from folk-like to commercial and pop-like music...

...Trent Hill Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Trent Hill The Enemy Within: Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s The traditional approach to censoring the objectionable in the realm of high culture tends to pit the heroic censor and the forces of the Good against...

...Kerry McSweeney Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 The End of A Dance to the Music of Time Kerry McSweeney Anthony Powell has been a fixture of the English literary scene for almost half a century. After Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for a London publisher during...

...Oscar Mandel Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Dissonant Music Sixty Years After Oscar Mandel What will vanguardism leave to posterity? Nothing but smoldering cinders which its propagandists, shout­ ing from the housetops, are trying to make us believe are a living forest...