keywords
- 18th to 20th century Euro-American music, music for the stage, African American musicals, work of especially notable performers and composers, Frank Loesser, Paul Robeson
- Contact Info
Riis, Thomas L
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, College of Music
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
- Frank Loesser 2008
- The Music and Scripts of "In Dahomey". Ed. Riis, Thomas L. 1996
- More Than Just Minstrel Shows: The Rise of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn of the Century 1992
- Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York, 1890-1915 1989
- Les Institutions politiques centrales du Danemark 1100-1332 1977
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chapter
- African American Musical Theater, 1890-Present 2012
- Minstrelsy and Theatrical Miscegenation. 65-80. 2011
- Crossing Boundaries Black Musicians Who Defied Musical Genres. 147-158. 2011
- The Music of a Trip to Coontown 2011
- American Musical Theatre from 1870 to 1945. 411-445. 2006
- Musical Theater: A Chronological Survey. 185-210. 2006
- New York Roots: James Reese Europe, Black Broadway, and Early Stride Pianists. 53-63. 2005
- African American Musical Cultures 2005
- African American Musical Theater 2001
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The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s.
164-189.
2001
- Clarence Cameron White 2000
- Rosamond Johnson 2000
- Will Marion Cook 2000
- Concert Singers, Prima Donnas, and Entertainers: The Changing Status of Black Women Vocalists in the Nineteenth-Century America 1998
- Dvorak’s Black Students 1996
- In Dahomey in Text and Performance. Ed. Riis, Thomas L. xiii-xlvi. 1996
- Musical Theatre 1996
- Pink Morton's Theater, Black Vaudeville, and the TOBA 1992
- Dwight's Journal of Music 1990
- JEMF Quarterly 1990
- The Black Perspective in Music 1990
- Hirdlovgivningen hos Saxo og Sven Aggesen.. 143-147. 1975
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journal article
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Preface.
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C.
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1865 Harmonia Mundi 807549 (J Horner-Kwiatek, B Molsky).
Nineteenth-Century Music Review.
361-363.
2016
- Music at the University of Colorado: The Early Years, Part 2. American Music Research Center Journal. 13-35. 2015
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American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review.
331-334.
2014
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Blackness in Opera.
African American Review.
185-187.
2013
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FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: A Trip to Coontown.
African American Review.
7-24.
2011
- Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 252-260. 2009
- Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 252-260. 2009
- Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 252-260. 2009
- Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1922. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 252-260. 2009
- Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 252-260. 2009
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Singing in my soul: Black gospel music in a secular age..
American Historical Review.
514-515.
2006
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Manufacturing the muse: Estey organs and consumer culture in Victorian America..
Technology and Culture.
828-830.
2003
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America's musical life: A history.
Journal of the American Musicological Society.
578-587.
2002
- 'You've Got to Be Carefully Taught': Canonical Concerns in American Musical Theater. 11-12. 2001
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Tavern singing in early Victorian London: The diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 and 1850.
Theatre research international.
112-113.
1999
- Opera and the Operatic, Drama and the Melodramatic: What Was the State of Things in Nineteenth-Century America?. 76-89. 1995
- Opera and the Operatic, Drama and the Melodramatic: What Was the State of Things in Nineteenth-Century America?. 75-89. 1995
- DVORAK AND HIS WORLD - BECKERMAN,M. Notes. 604-606. 1994
- DVORAK,ANTONIN, MY FATHER - DVORAK,O. Notes. 604-606. 1994
- Remembering Sister Mary Dominic Ray (1913-1994). American Music Research Center Journal. 1. 1994
- A Conversation with George Crumb. American Music Research Center Journal. 40. 1993
- Why American Research?. American Music Research Center Journal. 1-2. 1992
- Schillers 'Die Braut von Messina' og Harald Kiddes 'Jærnet'. Danske Studier. 144-148. 1989
- British-American Musical Interactions: The Experience and Impact of Black Entertainers in England, 1895-1920. American Music. 50. 1986
- The Experience and Impact of Black Entertainers in England, 1895-1920. American Music. 50. 1986
- The Music and Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Productions of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". American Music. 268. 1986
- Bob Cole: His Life and Legacy to Black Musical Theatre. 135. 1985
- Black Musical Theater, 1870-1930:Research Problems and Resources. American Music. 95. 1984
- Music of the American Theater: Black Musical Theater, 1870-1930:Research Problems and Resources. American Music. 95. 1984
- The Cultivated White Tradition and Black Music in the Nineteenth-Century America: A discussion of Some Articles in Dwight’s Journal of Music. 156-176. 1976
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Preface.
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C.
2019
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1981
- M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1976
- B.A., Oberlin College 1972
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Europe Continent
- United Kingdom Country