Annotated Bibliographies

An Animating Democracy bibliography

Music

This bibliography includes resources that informed the study, Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue. Other resources relevant to arts-based civic dialogue are also listed. This is part of a larger bibliography found in the Animating Democracy study; other sections are categorized by discipline or topic. To view or order the published study, go to Publications.

Additionally, a booklist of materials that address aesthetic considerations in music and civic dialogue is accessible through our resource center.

  1. Halker, Clark D. For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-95. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  2. Schulman, David. "A Rich Vein: In West Virginia Mine Country, A Composer Creates a Work that Delineates a Community's Life." Inside Arts, February/March 1995, pp. 32-36.
  3. Siegmeister, Elie. Music and Society. New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd., 1974.
  4. Tischler, Barbara L. An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.