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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

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

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

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

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)

SUSAN C. COOK

JULIA CHYBOWSKI

KATIE J. GRABER

RYAN ROSS

JENNI VEITCH OLSON

JAY KEISTER

Volume 13(2003)

CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH

CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH

TAMMY L. KERNODLE

GAYLE MURCHISON

WAYNE SHIRLEY

EARNEST LAMB

HORACE J. MAXILE, JR.

Volume 12 (2002)

MARIANNE BETZ

CHARLES KINZER

BRIAN LOCKE

KARL KROEGER

Normand Lockwood:
   
     WILLIAM KEARNS and CASSANDRA VOLPE

     
     KAY NORTON

Reviews:

BRENDA ROMERO

JOANNE SWENSON-ELDRIDGE

Volume 11 (2001)

ART SCHRADER

WILLIAM A. EVERETT

ANTONY JOHN

LISA M COOK

Volume 10 (2000)

LAURIE J. SAMPSEL and MARCELYN H. D'AVIS

DAVID M. WROBEL

HOWARD B. WALTZ

CASSANDRA M. VOLPE

Volume 8/9 (1998/99)

ROBERT R. FINK

WILLIAM KEARNS

ARIEL A. DOWNING

RODNEY SAUER

ANN B. REAGAN

GISELE GLOVER

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BART PLATENGA

Volume 7 (1997)
Special Issue: Longfellow and Music by H. Earle Johnson

THOMAS RIIS

BONNIE HEDGES

Longfellow and Music
H. EARLE JOHNSON

Volume 6 (1996)

LYNN ABBOTT

LEW ROBINSON

LINDA POHLY

JERRY RICHARDSON

LAURIE SAMSEL

Volume 5 (1995)
Special Issue on the Music of Native Americans

BRENDA POMERO

Cultural Metaphor and Music: A Syncretic Bicultural Teaching Experience in a Navajo High School
BRUCE COOK

NANCY TESKEY and GORDON BROCK

STEVE MULLINS

TARA BROWNER

SUSAN DOMINGUEZ

Volume 4 (1994)

THOMAS RIIS

LARRY WORSTER

KARL KROEGER

N. LEE ORR

JAMES L. ZYCHOWICZ

Volume 3 (1993)

WILLIAM KEARNS

STEVEN M. BRUNS

STEVEN M. BRUNS

THOMAS L. RIIS

MARIE KROEGER

WICTORIA LINDSAY LEVINE

JOHN KOEGEL

Volume 2 (1992)

THOMAS L. RIIS

KARL KROEGER

HELEN WALKER-HILL

NANCY F. CARTER

DENNIS LORANGER

SUSAN PORTER

SISTER MAY DOMINIC RAY

Volume 1 (1991)

CONSTANCE PRIMUS

DEANE ROOT

THURSTON DOX

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

KARL KROEGER

JOANNE SWENSON ELDRIDGE

MELODY J. PERKINS

KAY NORTON