Legacies of Power in American Music

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.

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

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