Introduction * Boston's French Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Ellen Knight * Tickler's Secrets: Ragtime Performance Practices
1900-1920-A Bibliographic Essay
Karen Rege * Mapping the Blues Genes: Technological
Economic
and Social Strands-A Spectral Analysis
Raymond D. Dessy * Some American Firms and Their Contributions to the Development of the Reproducing Piano
Kent Holliday * Dances
Frolics
and Orchestra Wars: The Territory Bands and Ballrooms of Kansas City
Missouri
1925-1935
Marc Rice * Thomas A. Dorsey and the Development and Diffusion of Traditional Black Gospel Piano
Timothy M. Kalil * Western Swing: Working-class Southwestern Jazz of the 1930s and 1940s
Jean A. Boyd * The Art of Noise: John Cage
Lou Harrison
and the West Coast Percussion Ensemble
Leta Miller * Melville Smith: Organist
Educator
Early Music Pioneer
and American Composer
Mark DeVoto * Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: High
Middle
and Low Culture
1937-1954
Donald C. Meyer * Cinema Music of Distinction: Virgil Thomson
Aaron Copland
and Gail Kubik
Alfred W. Cochran * The New Tin Pan Alley: 1940s Hollywood Looks at American Popular Songwriters
John C. Tibbetts
