Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Fall 2013 issue is "American Music."
Contents:
Introduction: This is Our Music
Gerald Early
The Screamers
Patrick Burke
Yellow Skin, White Masks
Mina Yang
Listening to the Now
David Robertson
Homophobia in Twentieth-Century Music: The Crucible of America’s Sound
Nadine Hubbs
The Ruth Crawford Seeger Sessions
Ellie M. Hisama
Johnny Cash & the Politics of Country Music
Daniel Geary
Hollywood as Music Museum & Patron: Bringing Various Musical Styles to a Wide Audience
Charlotte Greenspan
Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)
Sherrie Tucker
Pioneers of the Concept Album
Todd Decker
Long Time, No Song: Revisiting Fats Waller’s Lost Broadway Musical
John H. McWhorter
The Power of Suggestion & the Pleasure of Groove in Robert Glasper’s Black Radio
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
The Sound of Racial Feeling
Ronald Radano
Satchmo’s Shadow: An Excerpt from Satchmo at the Waldorf
Terry Teachout
Excerpts from Passport to Paris
Vernon Duke
A Good Chord on a Bad Piano
Weldon Kees
