Legacies of Power in American Music: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Budds [Paperback]

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 made a lasting impact on the field.

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 Americas rich and varied musical heritage. Ranging through jazz, gospel, Americana, and film music to American classical, and addressing musics 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.

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 Jellys 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