The American Music Research Center Journal was published annually from 1991 through 2019 and included topics of general interest about American music, particularly in subject areas relevant to the AMRC Collections.
All volumes (1-28) are available online below, and physical copies (except for volumes 2 and 10) can be purchased by completing an order form here.
Volume 28 (2019)
American Progressives of the 1970s: A Colloquy,
JAY KEISTER, JOHN J. SHEINBAUM, JEREMY L. SMITH
Black Prog: Soul, Funk, Intellect and the Progressive Side of Black Music of the 1970s,
JAY KEISTER
There’s an Opera Out on the Turnpike: Springsteen’s Early Epics and the Fantasy of the Real,
JOHN J. SHEINBAUM
Reading Carole King’s Tapestry as a Penelopean Retelling of the Homeric Odyssey,
JEREMY L. SMITH
Letters from Nadia Boulanger to Lydia Loudon in the Collection of the American Music Research Center,
JOAN S. SEGA
The Suffolk Symphonic Orchestra and Society Papers,
GISELE SCHIERHORST
Volume 27 (2018)
Introduction, BRENDA M. ROMERO
The Project Description, KELSEY A. FULLER
Meaning, Melody, and YouTube in Irish and Tibetan
Traditional Musics, MASON BROWN
“Lao Duang Duen” Lost in Translation: A New Perspective on
the Southeast Asian Classical Arts, BENJAMIN PONGTEP CEFKIN
North of “the West”: Analytical Perspectives on Swedish
Folk Music and Sámi Joik, KELSEY A. FULLER
Min’yo- and Bluegrass: Finding Common Ground in Folk Traditions
from Two Different Worlds, DANIEL OBLUDA
We Can Sing It Without Doing It: Gender Contestation Among
Nigerian and South African Women in Music, RUTH OPARA
A Western Perspective on Music from Guanacaste, Costa Rica,
and Cuban Batá Drumming, MEI-MEY SEGURA-WANG
Musical Dialogues: Arabesk and Hindi Film Music as Mediators
of Aesthetic Discourses, ALEXANDRA SISO
Volume 26 (2017)
Three Songs
A Study of Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Her Music
by Max Morath
Three Songs
Her Life
The Songs in Her Heart
Six of Those Songs
Conclusions
Volume 25 (2016)
Biographical Timeline, CHRISTINA LYNN-CRAIG
George Lynn’s Westminster Connection, LARRY BISER
George Lynn: A Life Lived in Music, ANNA WHEELER GENTRY
Songs My Father Taught Me: An Overview of the Song Cycles Composed by George Lynn
CHRISTINA LYNN-CRAIG
Musician, Educator, Mentor, Friend: A Personal Reminiscence of George Lynn
GREGORY STAPP
Volume 24 (2015)
The Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection of Colorado Folklore, GENE A. CULWELL
Music at the University of Colorado: The Early Years, Part 2, THOMAS L. RIIS
From “New York State of Mind” to “No Man’s Land”: Billy Joel’s Songs about American Places
JOSHUA S. DUCHAN
Colorado Stories, Colorado Songs, LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Peter Dunbaugh Smith. A Cultural History of the First Jazz and Blues Communities in Jacksonville, Florida, 1896–1916:
A Contribution of African Americans to American Musical Theater, Reviewed by BRIAN CASEY
AMRC Journal Volume 24 Table of Contents
Volume 23 (2014)
Considering the Other in Indianist Opera: Separation and Assimilation in Victor Herbert’s Natoma,
ROBERT WATERS
Paul Robeson’s Iconic Timbre and the Negotiation of Signification, MELANIE SHAFFER
“Just as necessary and valuable as any of the regular sciences”: Music at the University of Colorado in Its Early Years
THOMAS L. RIIS
Education Through Music: The Fundamental Ideas, CHARLES HUBERT FARNSWORTH
Beth E. Levy, Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Reviewed by MATTHEW MUGMON
Volume 22 (2013)
William Billings’s VARIETY WITHOUT METHOD: An Experiment in Modulation, KARL KROEGER
Forging a Sound Citizenry: Voice Culture and the Embodiment of the Nation, SCOTT A. CARTER
“Out Where the West Begins”: The Denver Song that Became a Western Classic
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and DONALD M. PUSCHER
Nadia Boulanger, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and American Music, DEBORAH HAYES
Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ, Reviewed by JOSEPH R. MATSON
AMRC Journal Volume 22 Table of Contents
Volume 21 (2012)
Serial Minimalist or Minimal Serialist? The Music of John McGuire, PAUL MILLER
The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and Charles Stern in 1942:
Toward the Origins of Bernstein as a Dramatic Composer, LARS HELGERT
Faith and Love in New Hope Valley: A Consideration of Community in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, HELEN SMITH
The Second Edition (1837) of William Walker’s The Southern Harmony, DAVID MUSIC
AMRC Journal Volume 21 Table of Contents
Volume 20 (2011)
Special Oral History Issue
One on One: Max Roach in Conversation with Kofi Ghanaba, KWASI AMPENE
Writing and Making Black Music History: An Interview with SAMUEL A. FLOYD, JR
Discovering American Music: An Interview with RICHARD CRAWFORD
Making Musicology Modern: An Interview with CAROL OJA
The American Music Research Center: Some Vignettes from the Early Dominican College Years
SISTER MARY DOMINIC RAY, with editorial notes by WILLIAM KEARNS
AMRC Journal Volume 20 Table of Contents
Volume 19 (2010)
Introduction, PAUL LAIRD
George Abbott’s Contribution to Musical Comedy Through the 1950s, SYLVIA STONER-HAWKINS
“Am I King or Am I Not King?”: Conflict, Gender, and Reconciliation in The King and I, HSUN LIN
The Actor’s Voice: The Non-Singing Lead in Broadway Musicals of the 1950s, SHARON O’CONNELL CAMPBELL
An Examination of Don Walker’s Style of Orchestration in The Pajama Game,
The Most Happy Fella, and The Music Man, PETER PURIN
Volume 18 (2009)
Jean Berger (1909–2002): A Biographical Chronology, LINDA L. GIEDL
Jean Berger: A “Good Neighbor” in the United States, CAROL A. HESS
Composer Meets Critic, Part Two: Selected Excerpts of the Jean Berger/Henry Pleasants Correspondence
with an introduction by LINDA L. GIEDL
In Honor of Jean Berger and His Gifts, TOM MACCLUSKEY
Volume 17
Pictorial Edition
Volume 16
Pictorial Edition
Volume 15 (2005)
The “Myth-Story” of Stephen C. Foster, or Why His True Story Remains Untold, DEANE L. ROOT
The Tune GOSPEL TRUMPET: Its Origin and Transmission in American Tunebooks, DAVID W. MUSIC
Defining the Sousa March: Its Formal and Stylistic Constants, JONATHAN ELKUS
Music Review: Daniel Read, Musica Ecclesiae, or Devotional Harmony, edited by Karl Kroeger and Marie Kroeger, MAXINE FAWCETT-YESKE
Announcement: Fink Lecture Series
Volume 14 (2004)
Lost in Translation: American Sounds and British Sensibilities
SUSAN C. COOK
The "Black Swan" in England: Abolition and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
JULIA CHYBOWSKI
"A Strange, Weird Effect": The Fisk Jubilee Singers in the United States and England
KATIE J. GRABER
"The Dance No Sarabande": Constant Lambert, The Rio Grande, and the American Exotic
RYAN ROSS
"We Go Together": Nostalgia, Gender, Class, and the London Reception of Grease: A New '50s Rock 'N' Roll Musical
JENNI VEITCH OLSON
Book Review: Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, edited by Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau
JAY KEISTER
Volume 13 (2003)
Troubled Island: A Symposium Introduction
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
"Glory is a Pssing Thing": William Grant Still and Langston Hughes Collaborate on Troubled Island
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
"Sons of Africa, Come Forth": Compositional Approaches of William Grant Still in the Opera Troubled Island
TAMMY L. KERNODLE
Was Troubled Island Seen by the Critics as a Protest Opera?
GAYLE MURCHISON
Two Aspects of Troubled Island
WAYNE SHIRLEY
An African-American Triptych
EARNEST LAMB
Reverent References: African American Cultural Topics in William Grant Still's Symphonic "Prayer"
HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.
Volume 12 (2002)
American Women as Operatic Sharacters: Puccini's Fanciulla del West Versus Chadwick's Marietta in The Padrone
MARIANNE BETZ
"Just a Little While to Stay Here": Louis Armstrong and the Brass Bands of New Orleans
CHARLES KINZER
"The Periphery is Singing Hit Songs": The Globalization of American Jazz and the Interwar Czech Avant-Garde
BRIAN LOCKE
Leonard Marshal and Early American Psalmody
KARL KROEGER
Normand Lockwood:
An Active Final Decade
WILLIAM KEARNS and CASSANDRA VOLPE
A Singular Composer's Life
KAY NORTON
Reviews:
Writing American Indian Music, Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements by Victoria Llindsay Levine
BRENDA ROMERO
Rayner Taylor: Chamber Music, ed. John Metz and Barbara Bailey-Metz
JOANNE SWENSON-ELDRIDGE
Volume 11 (2001)
Guittars and Guitars: A Note on a Musical Fashion
ART SCHRADER
Formulating American Operetta in 1924: Friml's Rose-Marie and Romberg's The Student Prince
WILLIAM A. EVERETT
Songs and the Audience in Early Movie Musicals
ANTONY JOHN
Book Review:
William B. Bradbury, Esther, the Beautiful Queen, edited by Juanita Karpf
LISA M COOK
Volume 10 (2000)
Composer Meets Critic: Selected Excerps of the Jean Berger/Henry Pleasants Correspondence, 1962-1971
Music at the Colorado Chautauqua: A Century-Long Tradition
LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and MARCELYN H. D'AVIS
Western Themes in Contemporary Rock Music, 1970-2000: A Lyric Analysis
DAVID M. WROBEL
Music Library Landmarks in Colorado
HOWARD B. WALTZ
Brief Collection Descriptions of American Music Research Center Archives
CASSANDRA M. VOLPE
Volume 8/9 (1998/99)
A Dedication to William Kearns and American Music
ROBERT R. FINK
MUSA: An American Monument
WILLIAM KEARNS
The Glenn Miller Mystery: An Interview with William Suitts and Alan Cass
Music as Artifact: The Johnson County War Ballads
ARIEL A. DOWNING
Photoplay Music: A Reusable Repertory for Silent Film Scoring, 1914-1929
RODNEY SAUER
Eugen Luening, German American-Musician--The Milwaukee Germans and die heilige deutsche Kunst (Holy German Art)
ANN B. REAGAN
The Life and Career of Edward Boatner and an Invertory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomberg Center
GISELE GLOVER
Will There Be Yodeling in Heaven?
BART PLATENGA
Volume 7 (1997)
Special Issue: Longfellow and Music by H. Earle Johnson
Editorial Preface
THOMAS RIIS
Biographical Note and Foreword
BONNIE HEDGES
Longfellow and Music
H. EARLE JOHNSON
Introduction
Part I. The Musical Longfellows
Operas Heard by Longfellow Between the Years 1825 and 1879
Part II. The Muiscal Works Considered
Notes
Bibliography
Chronological List of Works by Longfellow with Musical Settings
Musical Compositions Based on Longfellow's Literary Works
Alphabetical List of Musical Titles
Volume 6 (1996)
The Morris E. Dry Collection of the American Popular Music: A Personal Recollection
LEW ROBINSON
Barbra Steisand and the Theatricality of Popular Song: Vocal Technique and a Director's Eye
LINDA POHLY
B. B. King: Analysis of the Artist's Evolving Guitar Technique
JERRY RICHARDSON
Samual Babcock: A New England Psalmodist Suspended Between Tradition and Reform
LAURIE SAMSEL
Volume 5 (1995)
Special Issue on the Music of Native Americans
Prefeace
BRENDA POMERO
Cultural Metaphor and Music: A Syncretic Bicultural Teaching Experience in a Navajo High School
BRUCE COOK
Elements of Continuity in Kwakiutl Traditions
NANCY TESKEY and GORDON BROCK
"Metric Modulation" or Drum Tempo Contrasts in Hopi Traditional Dance
STEVE MULLINS
A Reexamination of the Peji Waci
TARA BROWNER
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), 1876-1938: (Re )discovering The Sun Dance
SUSAN DOMINGUEZ
Volume 4 (1994)
Remembering Sister Mary Dominic Ray (1913-1994)
THOMAS RIIS
Cecil Effinger and the Musicwritier
LARRY WORSTER
The Church-Gallery Orchestra in New England
KARL KROEGER
John Hill Hewitt: Bard of the Confederacy
N. LEE ORR
The Odyssey of Kurt Weill's "Ulysses Africanus"
JAMES L. ZYCHOWICZ
Volume 3 (1993)
Remembering Susan Porter: 1941-1993
WILLIAM KEARNS
George Crumb in Prague and Boulder 1992: A Tale of Two Festivals
STEVEN M. BRUNS
"In stilo Mahleriano": Quotation and Allusion in the Music of George Crumb
STEVEN M. BRUNS
A Conversation with George Crumb
THOMAS L. RIIS
The Federal Music Project in Denver: 1935-1941
MARIE KROEGER
Two Colorado Sources of Spanish New Mexican Music
WICTORIA LINDSAY LEVINE
Spanish Mission Music form California: Past, Present and Future Research
JOHN KOEGEL
Volume 2 (1992)
Why American Music Research?
THOMAS L. RIIS
The Life and Music of Merit Woodruff: An Early American Psalmodist
KARL KROEGER
Music by Black Women Composers at the American Music Research Center
HELEN WALKER-HILL
Early Music Publishing in Denver: The Tolbert R. Ingram Company
NANCY F. CARTER
Women, Nature and Appearance: Themes in Popular Song Texts from the Turn of the Century
DENNIS LORANGER
Performing Anglo-American Opera: Why and How?
SUSAN PORTER
The American Music Research Center: Some Vignettes From The Early Dominican College Years
SISTER MAY DOMINIC RAY
Volume 1 (1991)
Erich Katz: the Pied Piper Comes To America
CONSTANCE PRIMUS
The "Mythtory" of Stephen C. Foster or Why His True Story Remains Untold
DEANE ROOT
Samuel Felsted of Jamaica
THURSTON DOX
Symposium: "Why American Music?"
WILLIAM KEARNS
The Hutchingson Family: An American Tradition in Ninetiinth-Century
Popular Music, Linda Davenport
American Folk-Song Scholarship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
and its Effect on Defining an American Music, Larry Worster
The Amrican Wave of the 1930's, Kay Norton
American Music Since World War II: Music as a Commodity, Daniel Jones
"Darkest America": Some Remarks on Personal and National Identity, Dennis Loranger
Billings at Boulder: Doctoral Seminar Explores His Music
KARL KROEGER
AMRC Collections Enhance Course Offerings
JOANNE SWENSON ELDRIDGE
A Survey of the AMRC's Hillbilly Record Collection
MELODY J. PERKINS
The Normand Lockwood Archive and An Overview of His Career
KAY NORTON