Browsing by Author "Oja, Carol"

American Identities in an Atlantic Musical World: Transhistorical Case Studies

Goodman, Glenda (2013-02-20)

This dissertation analyzes the impact of musical transatlanticism on the identities of American communities. I do so through case studies in three time periods: seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, the post-Revolutionary ...

The American Mahler: Musical Modernism and Transatlantic Networks, 1920-1960

Mugmon, Matthew Steven (2013-09-30)

By the 1960s, the music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler had become an exceptionally--and enduringly--popular part of American concert life. But for much of the twentieth century, the place of Mahler's music in America's ...

Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States

Craft, Elizabeth Titrington (2014-06-06)

This dissertation examines the Americanization of immigrants as a defining theme in American musical theater. It does so through studies of productions from across the past century about Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, ...

Colin McPhee: A Composer Turned Explorer

Oja, Carol (Cambridge University Press, 1984)

The Copland-Sessions Concerts and Their Reception in the Contemporary Press

Oja, Carol (Oxford University Press, 1979)

Dane Rudhyar's Vision of American Dissonance

Oja, Carol (University of Illinois Press, 1999)

Gershwin and American Modernists of the 1920s

Oja, Carol (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, and New World Virtuosities

Mok, Lucille Yehan (2014-10-21)

This dissertation centers on virtuosity as a source of creative genesis, boundary-pushing, and musical debate. Focusing on the careers and works of pianists Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) and Glenn Gould (1932-1982), I examine ...

Hearing Hollywood Women: Music and Gender in Action Films, 1950s–1980s

Edgar, Grace Jost

In this dissertation, I explore how Hollywood film composers represented female action heroes in leitmotivic scores during the Cold War. Women starred in swashbucklers and Westerns in the regressive gender climate of the ...

Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom

Oja, Carol; Shelemay, Kay (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Leonard Bernstein is most often perceived as the quintessential New Yorker—music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969 and composer of Broadway shows that made New York their focus. Yet his grounding in ...

Making Musicology Modern: An Interview with Carol Oja

Oja, Carol J.; Riis, Tom (American Music Research Center, 2011)

Musicologist Carol Oja is interviewed about her life and career, which focused on 20th-century American modernism, musical theater and cross-cultural composition.

Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock" and Mass-Song Style of the 1930s

Oja, Carol (Oxford University Press, 1989)

Negotiating the Soundtrack: Music in Early Sound Film in the U.S. and France, 1926-1934

Lewis, Hannah Rose (2014-06-06)

This dissertation examines music's role in cinema in the early years of synchronized sound film in the United States and France. Working against the historical and technological determinism that often plagues narratives ...

"New Music" and the "New Negro": The Background of William Grant Still's "Afro-American Symphony"

Oja, Carol (Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago, 1992)

On Friends, Mothers, and Scholarship: A Tribute to Adrienne Fried Block

Oja, Carol J. (H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, 2009)

The Paradox of Charles Ives (Review of David Paul, Charles Ives in the Mirror)

Oja, Carol J. (2014)

Performing Negro Folk Culture, Performing America: Hall Johnson’s Choral and Dramatic Works (1925-1939)

Wittmer, Micah (2015-12-08)

This dissertation explores the portrayal of Negro folk culture in concert performances of the Hall Johnson Choir and in Hall Johnson’s popular music drama, Run, Little Chillun. I contribute to existing scholarship on Negro ...

Rubber Souls: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

Hamilton, John C. (2013-09-30)

This dissertation explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s, and asks how, when, and why rock and roll music "became white." By Jimi Hendrix's death in 1970 the idea of a black man playing ...

Soviet and American Cold War Ballet Exchange, 1959–1962

Searcy, Anne Ashby (2016-05-12)

The spring of 1959 marked the beginning of a hugely successful ballet exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted over three decades. In this dissertation, I examine the opening years of this exchange, ...

The Still-Life Paintings of William Michael Harnett (Their Reflections upon Nineteenth-Century American Musical Culture)

Oja, Carol (Oxford University Press, 1977)