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  1. Editor’s Introduction
  2. Todd Decker
  3. pp. 1-3
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  1. Reciting Parsifal: Opera as Spoken-Word Performance in America
  2. Marian Wilson Kimber
  3. pp. 4-28
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  1. From the Sidelines: Reginald Beane’s Broadway
  2. Julianne Lindberg
  3. pp. 29-54
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  1. Musofun: Joseph Schillinger’s Musical Game between American Music, the Soviet Avant-Garde, and Combinatorics
  2. Nikita Braguinski
  3. pp. 55-77
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  1. From “the Chord Was King” to “a Dynamic Journey”: Changes in the Barbershop Quartet Style in Contests Since the 1950s
  2. Robert G. Hopkins
  3. pp. 78-101
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  1. The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, and: May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy by Sharon Ammen, and: Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870–1929 by Nicholas Gebhardt (review)
  2. Thomas L. Riis
  3. pp. 102-109
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  1. Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music by William Gibbons (review)
  2. Ryan Thompson
  3. pp. 110-112
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  1. “Very Good for an American”: Essays on Edward MacDowell ed. by E. Douglas Bomberger (review)
  2. Jacob A. Cohen
  3. pp. 113-116
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  1. Charles Ives’s “Concord”: Essays after a Sonata by Kyle Gann (review)
  2. Geoffrey Block
  3. pp. 116-120
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  1. On the Road & Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years with the Exasperating Genius by Charlie Harmon, and: Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein (review)
  2. Ann Glazer Niren
  3. pp. 121-124
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