Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830-1930

"A dynamic group of art historians explores intricacies of the most democratic form of visual imagery in the U.S., illustrated sheet music, owned by millions of Americans who were wooed by compelling lithographic covers, displayed the material culture in their parlors, and performed compositions on home pianos"--

Theresa Leininger-Miller is Professor of Art History at University of Cincinnati, USA. Kenneth Hartvigsen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University, USA.

1830-1900 1. "Viral Pictures and Network Artistry in U.S. Sheet Music Illustration" [1820s-70s] Erin Pauwels, Temple University 2. "The First Golden Age of Illustration in America" [1840s] Kevin Lynch, The Lynch Archive 3. "Fitz Henry Lane and Illustrations for Sheet Music" [1833-1841] Georgia Barnhill, Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society 4. "Sounding the Spa: The Illustrated Parlor Music of Tourism, 1850-1870" Alexandra Cade, University of Delaware 5. "We Three Kings: The Magi in an Illustrated Christmas Carol from 1865" Paul Kaplan, State University of New York, Purchase 6. "The Case of "Reconstruction! Grand March;" Horrifying Pictures, Racial Hybridity, and the Visual Modalities of American Song" [1868] Kenneth Hartvigsen, Brigham Young University, 7. "Depictions of African Americans and the South in the Sheet Music of Blind Tom and Blind Boone" [1860-1913] Rebecca Bush, The Columbus Museum 8. "Who Would Doubt That I'm a Man?": The New Woman: March and Two-Step" [1895] Erin Smith, Case Western Reserve University 1900-1930 9. "Sheet Music and Blackface Minstrelsy in the U.S. Artists' Colony in Paris, ca. 1900" Emily Burns, University of Oklahoma 10. "Class, Race, Image, and Sound in Sheet Music from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition" [1904] Karen Olson, St. Olaf College 11. "Rust Belt Alley: Cleveland as Sheet Music Nexus" [1890s-1930s] Daniel Goldmark, Case Western Reserve University 12. "The Visual Culture of Italian Immigrant Sheet Music (1907-1941)" Rosangela Briscese and Joseph Sciorra, Queens College 13. "Dance, Dining, and Urban Social Life in "Too Much Mustard" and Its Responses" [1913] Sophie Benn, Butler University 14. "Choosing Illustrations to Mediate Gender in Estelle Philleo's Setting the West to Music" [1917-1925] Laurie Sampsel and Donald Puscher, University of Colorado at Boulder 15. ""If You Don't Get It, Tain't No Fault of Mine:" Illustrated Sheet music by Albert Alexander Smith in New York and Paris, 1919-1925" Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati 16. "Alterity and Antiquarianism in the Illustrated Sheet Music of the Shriners" [1895-1930] Jaclynne Kerner, State University of New York, New Paltz