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• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Mel Stanfill (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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• Use of mechanical reproduction of music : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, second session, pursuant to S. Res. 286, a resolution autorizing an investigation of the action of the American Federation of Musicians in denying its members the right to play or contract for recordings or other forms of mechanical reproduction of music, September 17, 18, and 21, 1942. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 286 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The future of musicians; a plea for organization (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1914), by Emil Krall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorizing royalties for musical compositions on coin-operated machines: hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 of Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session on H.R. 5921, to require jukebox operators to pay royalty fees for the use of the musical property of composers, authors, and copyright owners, June 10, 11, 12, 17, and 18, 1959. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1959), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians performance trust funds. Hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, on investigation with respect to the operations of and contributions to musicians performance trust funds. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Establishing and operating a music store (Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off, [1946], 1946), by Anne Dienstl Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Careers ... (Chicago, 1945), by Institute for Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Municipal aid to music in America; an emposition and analysis (National bureau for the advancement of music, 1925), by Kenneth Sherman Clark and National Bureau for the Advancement of Music (page images at HathiTrust)
• Offenbach en Amérique; notes d'un musicien en voyage (Calmann Lévy, 1877), by Jacques Offenbach and Albert Wolff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American spirit in art (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1927), by Frank Jewett Mather, W. J. Henderson, and Charles Rufus Morey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Musical yearbook of the United States ... (Boston [etc.], 1884), by Calvin Brainerd Cady and G. H. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American composers; being a study of the music of this country, its present conditions and its future, with critical estimates and biographies of the principal living composers; and an abundance of portraits, fac-simile musical autographs, and compositions (L. C. Page and company (incorporated), 1900), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music materials and the public library. (Social Science Research Council, 1949), by Otto Luening and Public Library Inquiry (Project) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worlds of music. (Lippincott, 1952), by Cecil Michener Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The music of the people. By Willem Van de Wall. (American Association for Adult Education, 1938), by Willem Van de Wall and American Association for Adult Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• American composers; a study of the music of this country, and of its future. (The Page company, 1914), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national music of America and its sources (L.C. Page, 1924), by Louis Charles Elson and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal music project (The Project, 1936), by Federal Music Project (U.S.), Ellen S. Woodward, Nikolai Sokoloff, and United States. Works Progress Administration. Division of Women's and Professional Projects (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music education source book; a compendium of data, opinion, and recommendations. (Chicago, 1951), by Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) and Hazel Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music as a social force in America and the science of practice. (The Caxton institute incorporated, 1927), by Robert Haven Schauffler and Sigmund Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The study of music in public schools. (Government Printing Office, 1886), by United States Bureau of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on the music life in the United States. (Merlin Press, 1956), by Roger Sessions (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming of age of the American artist; a series of public discussions [held in Steinway Hall, New York City, June 11 and 12, 1957] by eminent singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, choreographers, concert managers, teachers, critics, government administrators, and other leading figures in the performing arts, held in observance of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the American Guild of Musical Artists. ([New York, 1958), by American Guild of Musical Artists (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of music in America (Priv. print. for the author by the McQueen press, 1913), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music education source book ; a compendium of data, opinion, and recommendations (Chicago, 1949), by Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) and Hazel Beckwith Nohavec Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Community and assembly singing (M. Witmark & sons, 1933), by Augustus D. Zanzig and National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American composers : being a study of the music of this country, and its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present time (L. C. Page & company, 1910), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national music of America and its sources (L. C. Page and company (incorporated), 1900), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Offenbach in America. Notes of a travelling musician. (G. W. Carleton & co.;, 1877), by Jacques Offenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music licensing reform : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3521 ... March 19 and July 23, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from Dixie; old time Southern songs (Noble and Noble, 1918), by J. Griff Edwards and Matthew Page Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronx ballads (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1927), by Robert Alfred Simon and Harry Hershfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music from the days of George Washington. (AMS Press, 1970), by Carl Engel, W. Oliver Strunk, and United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1883), by Frédéric Louis Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rating entertainment ratings : how well are they working for parents and what can be done to improve them? : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, July 25, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's position in music (The Four Seas Company, 1920), by Eugene E. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performing arts : music. (Library of Congress :, 1995), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• American composers : a study of the music of this country and of its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present time : being a new rev. ed. of Contemporary American composers (The Page company, 1918), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1883), by Frédéric Louis Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1890), by Frédéric Louis Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• America and the Americans the theatres, the streets, the cars, the newspapers ... (W. Reeves, 1877), by Jacques Offenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Musical yearbook of the United States. (Boston [etc.], 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in America (C. Scribner's sons, 1884), by Frédéric Louis Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national music of America and its sources. (L.C. Page, 1911), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An interview with Otto H. Kahn on operatic and dramatic art in America and other art topics ... (The Publishers Press, 1911), by Otto H. Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Offenbach's note book of his American tour (W. Reeves, 1877), by Jacques Offenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians performance trust funds. Hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, on investigation with respect to the operations of and contributions to musicians performance trust funds. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heart songs dear to the American people (Published by the Chapple Pub. Co. expressly for World Syndicate Co., New York City, 1909), by Robert M. Skirvin and Joe Mitchell Chapple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in America (The University of North Carolina press, 1944), by Adeline Denham McCall and Margaret Lee Maaske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let's have music; the place and planning of music in program (Woman's Press, 1948), by Marie Oliver and Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Music Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music: now and then. (Coleman-Ross, 1955), by Ashley Pettis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Olden time music in the Connecticut valley. (Boston : Warren F. Kellogg, 1901., 1901), by Collins G. Burnham, N.H. Allen, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on the Music Life in the United States, by Roger Sessions (Gutenberg ebook)

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