Recent Departmental Publications

Listed below are citations for publications and recordings of UNC-Chapel Hill Music Department faculty, graduate students, and alumni which are held in the Music Library. Citations are displayed for the most recent four years only. Reviews of works by UNC authors are listed under the author’s name rather than reviewer’s name. While we do not claim that this is a complete list, we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible within these parameters. Periodical articles and reviews are listed under the year the issue actually appeared. Any additions or corrections may be sent to musiclibraryinfo@unc.edu


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2022

Atkinson, Charles M. (Ph.D. 1975). “Ad te levavi and Dipper Mouth Blues: Modes of Transmission and the Question of Musical Identity.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 104, no. 3-4 (2021): 1–36. [Full Text].

Citron, Marcia (Ph.D. 1971). Review of The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Ed. by Stephen Rodgers. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text]. Music and Letters, vol. 102, no. 4 (2021): 837-840. [Full Text].

Ebright, Ryan (Ph.D. 2014). Review of Met Opera on Demand. Journal of the Society for American Music (2022): 1–2. [Full Text].

Scott, Amanda L. (MA 2007). “Adding LCMPT Terms to Local Catalog Records for Notated Music for Voice and Piano.” Music Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. [Full Text].

Smith-Biwer, Kelli. “‘The Silent Partner’: Tonearms and Modular Masculinities in U.S. Midcentury Hi-Fi Culture.” Journal of the Society for American Music (2022): 1–24. [Full Text].

2021

Barber, Rahsaan. Mosaic. Jazz Music City. Reviewed by Dan Bilawksy. Jazz Times, vol. 51, no. 6 (2021): 60. [Full Text].

Bohlman, Andrea F. “Communication, Technology, Media.” In Critical Themes in World Music: A Reader for Excursions in World Music, 61–70. Eighth edition. Ed. Timothy Rommen. New York: Routledge, 2021.

_____. “Music and Europe.” In Excursions in World Music, 288–321. Eighth edition. Ed. Timothy Rommen. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Bonds, Mark Evan. “Expression.” In The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy, 705–22. Ed. Tomás McAuley, Nanette Nielsen, and Jerrold Levinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

Borecky, Andrew. “Dungeons, Dragons, and Music: The Immersive Qualities of Sound in Dungeons and Dragons.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games, vol. 2, no. 1 (2021): 46–64.

Brackett, John (Ph.D. 2003). “The ASCAP-BMI Feud, Status Panic, and the Struggle for Cold War Consensus.” Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 15, no. 2 (May 2021): 171–191. [Full Text].

Ebright, Ryan (Ph.D. 2014). “Steve Reich.” Oxford Bibliographies Online, 23 November 2021. [Full Text].

Fauser, Annegret. “Retrospective Reflections/Réflexions rétrospectives.” Special Issue: “Musique et Sexualité/Music and Sexuality,” ed. Esteban Buch and Violeta Nigro Giunta. Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales, vol. 9 (2021). [Full Text].

_____. “‘The Orchestra, in its Sounds, Defies Virtue…’: The Role of the Erotic in the Works of Massenet.” Translated by Maggie Jones. Special Issue: “Musique et Sexualité/Music and Sexuality,” ed. Esteban Buch and Violeta Nigro Giunta. Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales, vol. 9 (2021). [Full Text]. Originally published as “«L’orchestre dans les sons brave l’honnêteté…»: Le rôle de l’élément érotique dans l’œuvre de Massenet.” In Massenet en son temps, 156-179. Ed. Patrick Gillis and Gérard Condé. Saint-Étienne: Association du Festival Massenet, 1999.

Feldman, Evan, and Ari Contzius. Instrumental Music Education: Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2021. [MT1.F42 2021].

Figueroa, Michael A. “‘Behind the Sounds’: Matti Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, and the Politics of Genre in Israel.” Journal of Musicology, vol. 38, no. 4 (2021): 401–418. [Full Text].

Flory, Andrew (Ph.D. 2006). Review of Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back. By Mark Slobin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. [ML200.8.D3 S56 2019]. Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 15, no. 4 (November 2021): 476–477. [Full Text].

Graber, Naomi (Ph.D. 2013). Kurt Weill’s America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

Guberman, Dan (Ph.D. 2012). Review of Carter. By David Schiff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML410.C3293 S32 2018]. Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 15, no. 2 (May 2021): 248–251. [Full Text].

Katz, Mark. Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. [ML3918.R37 K37 2019]. Reviewed by Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis, Notes, vol. 78, no. 2 (December 2021): 241-246. [Full Text].

Robin, William (Ph.D. 2016). Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

_____, host. Sound Expertise. Podcast audio, 2021. [Full Recordings].

Scott, Amanda L. (MA 2007). “Adding LCMPT Terms to Local Catalog Records for Notated Music for Voice and Piano.” Music Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. [Full Text].

Shadle, Douglas W. (Ph.D. 2010). Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

Stacks, Stephen (Ph.D. 2019). “Teaching Freedom Song as Antiracist Praxis.” Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 15, no. 4 (November 2021): 461–465. [Full Text].

Vandermeer, Philip. Review of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (by Lydia R. Hamessley, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020 [Full Text]) and Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics (by Dolly Parton, with Robert K. Oermann, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2020 [ML54.6.P38 S66 2020 & Full Text]). Notes, vol. 78, no. 1 (September 2021): 78-83. [Full Text].

Walker, Jennifer (Ph.D. 2019). Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transforming Catholicism through the Music of Third Republic Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

Wells, Christi Jay (Ph.D. 2009). Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Full Text].

2020

Bohlman, Andrea F. “Electronic Music, Sampling, and the Tape Snippet: How the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio Made Itself Useful.” Contemporary Music Review, vol. 39, no. 6 (2020): 708–32.

_____. Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-century Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [ML3917.P58 B65 2020 & Full Text].

_____. Review of Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape. Directed, produced, and filmed by Zack Taylor; edited, produced, and additional camera by Georg Petzold. El Segundo, CA: Gravitas Ventures, 2017. [65-DVD22753]. Ethnomusicology, vol. 64, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 543–45. [Full Text].

_____ and J. Mackenzie Pierce. “Friend and Force: Nadia Boulanger in Polish Musical Culture.” In Nadia Boulanger and Her World, 229–53. Ed. Jeanice Brooks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. [Full Text].

Bonds, Mark Evan. Beethoven: Variations on a Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [Full Text].

_____. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [ML3800 .B75 2020].

_____. “‘Wozzeck’s Worst Hours’: Alban Berg’s Presentation Copy of Wozzeck to Eduard Steuermann.” Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, vol. 76, no. 4 (2020): 527–34.

Busman, Joshua Kalin (Ph.D. 2015). “‘Grow a Beard and Be Somebody’: Disavowal and Vector Space at Rocketown, Nashville.” In Christian Punk: Identity and Performance. Ed. Ibrahim Abraham. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Carter, Tim. “Broadway Goes to War.” In Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States, 131–47. Ed. Pamela M. Potter, Christina L. Baade, and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. [Full Text].

_____. “Epyllia and Epithalamia: Some Narrative Frames for Early Opera.” The Italianist, vol. 40, no. 3 (2020): 382–399. [Full Text].

Cyrus, Cynthia (Ph.D. 1990). “The Margin Is the Message: The Changeable Mise-en-page as Signal of Musicking in Nuns’ Liturgical Books in Late Medieval Freiburg im Breisgau.” In Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250–1750), 20–44. Ed. Claire Fontijn. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. [Full Text].

Fauser, Annegret. “Afterword: Trans/national Soundscapes in World War II.” In Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States, 263–74. Ed. Pamela M. Potter, Christina L. Baade, and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. [Full Text].

_____. “Compositeur, critique, champion de la musique américaine: les écrits d’Aaron Copland.” Translated by Vincent Giroud. In La Critique musicale au XXe siècle, 1105‒11. Ed. Timothée Picard. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020.

_____. “Gendered War, Mobilization, Culture and Music in the Age of World Wars.” In Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, 410‒31. Ed. Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, and Sonya Rose. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [U21.75 .O94 2020].

_____, annotations. “From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette.” In Nadia Boulanger and Her World, 54‒84. Ed. Jeanice Brooks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. [Full Text].

Figueroa, Michael A. “Decolonizing ‘Intro to World Music?'” Journal of Music History Pedagogy, vol. 10, no. 1 (2020): 39–57. [Full Text].

Gibbons, William (Ph.D. 2010) and Reale, Steven. Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies. New York: Routledge, 2019. [Full Text]. Reviewed by Peter Shirts. Music Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3–4 (2020): 191–93. [Full Text].

_____. Unlimited Replays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML3540.7.G53 2018 & Full Text]. Reviewed by Elizabeth Hambleton, Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 14, no. 3 (2020): 366–69. [Full Text].

Katz, Mark. “Listening to Recorded Sound.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production, edited by Simon Zagorski-Thomas and Andrew Bourbon, 383–391. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. [Full Text].

MacNeil, Anne. “Songs for Isabella d’Este.” In Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250–1750), 105–124. Ed. Claire Fontijn. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. [Full Text].

Neal, Jocelyn. “Parton, Dolly: Biographie.” Translated by Laurenz Lütteken. MGG Online, 2020. [Full Text].

_____. “Tennessee Whiskey and the Politics of Harmony.” Special Issue: “Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies,” ed. Nadine Hubbs and Francesca Royster. Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 (2020): 214-237.

Patner, Andrew, edited by John R. Schmidt and Douglas W. Shadle (Ph.D.2010). A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Reviewed by Christopher Mehrens (Ph.D.1998).  Music Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 23 (2020). [Full Text].

Porcaro, Mark D. (Ph.D. 2006). Review of Carter. By David Schiff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML410.C3293 S32 2018]. Notes, vol. 76, no. 3 (March 2020): 470–473.

Reali, Christopher M. (Ph.D. 2014). Review of Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville’s William Pursell. By Terry Wait Klefsted. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. [ML410.P966 K54 2018].  Notes, vol. 77, no. 1 (September 2020). [Full Text].

Robin, William (Ph.D. 2016), host. Sound Expertise. Podcast audio, 2020. [Full Recordings].

_____. “The 1918 Pandemic’s Impact on Music? Surprisingly Little.” New York Times, May 6, 2020. [Full Text].

Shadle, Douglas W. (Ph.D. 2010). Review of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture. By E. Douglas Bomberger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML200.5 .B66 2018 and Full Text]. Music and Letters, vol. 101, no. 4 (2020): 288. [Full Text].

Stimeling, Travis D. (Ph.D. 2007). Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [Full Text].

Upton, Elizabeth Randell (Ph.D. 2001). “Lucrezia Borgia’s Voice.” In Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250–1750), 125–142. Ed. Claire Fontijn. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. [Full Text].

Vanderhamm, David (Ph.D.2017). “‘I’m Just an Armless Guitarist’: Tony Melendez, Disability, and the Social Construction of Virtuosity.”  Journal for the Society for American Music, vol. 14, no. 3 (2020): 280–307. [Full Text].

2019

Álamo, Juan & Marimjazzia. Ruta Panoramica. Summit Records DCD741, 2019, CD. [CD-31,961].

Bartig, Kevin (Ph.D. 2008). Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. [ML410 .P865 B37 2017]. Reviewed by Terry L. Dean in Notes, vol. 75, no. 4 (2019): 657–59. [Full Text].

Bidgood, Lee (BA 2001). Review of Prague Soundscapes. By Zuzana Jurková. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2014. [ML 3499.09 J87 2013].  Ethnomusicology, vol. 63, no. 2  (Summer 2019): 344–46.

Bohlman, Andrea F. “Classical Music in Poland.” In The Handbook of COURAGE: Cultural Opposition and Its Heritage in Eastern Europe, 293–98. Ed. Balázs Apor, Péter Apor, and Sándor Horváth. Bratislava: Comenius University, 2019. [Full Text].

_____. “Poland: Contemporary Performance Practice.” In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, 1708–9. Ed. Janet Sturman. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2019. [Full Text].

Bonds, Mark Evan. “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Revolutionary Ideals in Narratives of the ‘Farewell’ Symphony.” In Joseph Haydn & die “Neue Welt”: Musik- und Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, 283–301. Ed. Walter Reicher and Wolfgang Fuhrmann. (Eisenstädter Haydn Berichte, 11). Vienna: Hollitzer, 2019.

_____. “Turning Liebhaber into Kenner: Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s Lectures on the Art of Listening, ca. 1780–1785.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 145–62. Ed. Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. [ML 3916. O968 2019].

Busman, Joshua (Ph.D. 2015). “From Hipster to Hillbilly: Death, Bluegrass, and Gospel According to David Crowder.” Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 13, no. 3 (2019): 338–58. [Full Text].

Ebright, Ryan (Ph.D. 2014). “Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design.” Cambridge Opera Journal 31, no. 1 (2019): 85–117. [Full text].

_____.“We are not trying to make a political piece’: The Reconciliatory Aesthetic of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave.” In Rethinking Reich, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn, 93–109. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. [Full Text].

Flory, Andrew (Ph.D. 2006). I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. [ML.3792.M67 F56 2017]. Reviewed by by Charles L. Hughes, Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 13, no. 2 (2019): 232–33 [Full Text].

Francis, Kimberly A. (Ph.D. 2010), ed. Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected CorrespondenNce. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2018. [ML 423 .B52 A4 2018]. Reviewed by Kendra Preston Leonard in Fontes Artis Musicae 66/1 (January – March 2019): 67–69. [Full Text].

Garcia, David F. Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. [ML3479.G37 2017 & Full Text]. Reviewed by Francisco D. Lara, Notes, vol. 76, no. 2 (2019): 296–98.

Katz, Mark. Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. [ML3918.R37 K37 2019].

Kramer, Elizabeth (Ph.D. 2005). Review of Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna. By Nancy November. Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: The Boydell Press, 2017. [ML1160.N68 2017]. Notes, vol. 76, no. 2 (December 2019): 271–74.

Laird, Paul (Ph.D. 1986) and Hsun Lin. Historical Dictionary of Leonard Bernstein. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. [ML410.B566 L36 2019].

Li, Zhizhi (Stella). “Peking Opera (Beijing Opera, jingju),” Oxford Bibliographies Online, 27 March 2019. [Full Text].

MacNeil, Anne. “‘I’ve Said Too Much’: Canon Antonio Ceruto’s Descriptions of Music and Theater in Mantua, 1597.” In Itinera chartarum: 150 anni dell’Archivio di Stato di Mantova, 386–93. Ed. Roberta Piccinelli, Deanna Semek, and Luisa Onesta Tamassia. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2019. [CD1655.M36 I85 2019 c. 2].

Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers. Necessary Noise: Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. [ML 350.5 .N32 2016]. Reviewed by Michelle Kisliuk in Ethnomusicology, vol. 63, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 331–39. [Full Text].

Robin, William (Ph.D. 2016). “Horizons ’83, Meet the Composer, and New Romanticism’s New Marketplace.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 102, no. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 2019): 158–99. [Full Text].

Scott, Amanda L.  (MA 2007). “The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints as a Primary Source for Historical Research in Music.” Notes, vol. 76, no. 2 (December 2019): 223–37.

Segretario, Michele (MA 2017). “A Fickle Soundscape: The Fisherman’s Feast in Boston’s North End.” Italian American Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (2019): 113–30.

Sewright, Kathleen (Ph.D. 2008) “A Medieval Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging. The San Lorenzo Palimpsest: Florence, Archivio del Capitolo di San Lorenzo, Ms. 2211, edited by John Nadas, Ars Nova, nuova serie, vol.IV.” Notes, vol. 75, no. 3 (March 2019). [Full Text].

Shadle, Douglas W. (Ph.D. 2010) and John R. Schmidt, eds. A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti. By Andrew Patner. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. [Full Text].

Tomlinson, Sarah. “Folk Songs at the North Carolina Symphony: Engaging Students with Primary Sources on Music and Gender.” Music Educator’s Journal, vol. 106, no. 2 (December 2019): 18–21. [Full Text].

Turner, Kristen M. (Ph.D. 2015). “Blue Monday and New York Theatrical Aesthetics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin, 59-79. Ed. Anna Harwell Celenza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. [ML410 .G288 C26 2019].

Walker, Jennifer (Ph.D. 2019). Review of The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns, edited by Michael Stegemann. Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music, vol. 17, no. 33 (April 2019): 92–93. [Full Text].

Zeiss, Laurel E. (Ph.D. 1999). Review of Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade. By Simon P. Keefe. Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. [ML410.M9 K24 2017]. Notes, vol. 76, no. 2. (December 2019): 255–58. [Full Text].