| Contents |
William Steinway and music in New York, 1861-1871 / Edwin M. Good -- Mrs. Potiphar at the opera: satire, idealism, and cultural authority in post-Civil War New York / Karen Alhquist -- Concert singers, prima donnas, and entertainers: the changing status of Black women vocalists in nineteenth-century America / Thomas L. Riis -- Somewhere between beer and Wagner: the cultural and musical impact of German Männerchore in New York and New Orleans / Mary Sue Morrow -- The Indianapolis Männerchor: contributions to a new musicality in midwestern life / Suzanne G. Snyder -- Why American art music first arrived in New England / Nicholas E. Tawa -- Promoting the local product: reflections on the California musical press, 1874-1914 / Michael Saffle -- Music in Lancaster, Kentucky, 1885-1910: local talent, touring artists, and the opera house / Ben Arnold -- Jacob Guth in Montrose: a town band in central Pennsylvania, 1888-1897 / Kenneth Kreitner -- When Cairo met main street: little Egypt, Salome dancers, and the World's Fairs of 1893 and 1904 / Charles A. Kennedy -- Inventing tradition: symphony and opera in progressive-era Los Angeles / Catherine Parsons Smith -- The operettas of Charles Hutchinson Gabriel / Clyde W. Brockett -- The missing title page: Dvořák and the American national song / John C. Tibbetts. |
