The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Howard, James H. "The Nanticoke-Delaware Skeleton Dance." American Indian Quarterly 2 (Spring 1975): 1-13.
Categories: Music and Theater, Native American
Jones, James Nathan. Alfred Jack Thomas (1884-1962) Musician, Composer, Educator. M.A. thesis, Morgan State University, 1978.
Notes: Through Army records, the pages of the Afro American, and interviews with musicians who worked and studied with Alfred Jack Thomas, Jones brings to life the world of the classically trained African-American musician during segregation. One of the first Black bandmasters in the U.S. Army, composer, and conductor (the first Black conductor to lead the all-white Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) A. Jack Thomas was a major force in Maryland's African-American musical community from World War I until his retirement in 1955. Thomas, an outstanding athlete who attended college on a boxing scholarship, rode with the 10th U.S. Cavalry in the American West and served under General John J. Pershing during his campaign to put down the revolutionary forces under Pancho Villa. In 1921 Thomas fought to establish the first Black municipal band in Baltimore and became its conductor. He chaired the Music Department at Morgan College and was a member of the faculty of Howard University.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century
Kahn, Philip, Jr. "The Yiddish Theater." Generations (Fall 1993): 17, 19.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater
Kares, M. "Baltimore: Center of German-American Organ Building." Tracker 39, no. 3 (1995): 10-17.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Katz, Adam. "Conducting History." Annapolis Quarterly (Spring 1996): 18-22.
Categories: Music and Theater
Katz-Stone, Adam. "'Green' Pastures." Annapolis Quarterly (Fall 1996): 86-88.
Categories: Music and Theater
Keefer, Lubov. Baltimore's Music: The Haven of the American Composer. Baltimore: J. H. Furst Co., 1962.
Notes: As eccentric as its author, the incomparable Lubov Breit Keefer, <em>Baltimore's Music</em> is a dizzying stream of consciousness that rushed from Colonial Maryland headlong into the 'sixties. Keefer covers everything from church music to tin pan alley, packing in histories of all of the city's major musical organizations, amateur and professional, along with glimpses of composers, performers and musical trends. It helps to remember that no on else had the nerve to take on this topic. Keefer did, publishing it herself, without the benefit of an editor, and this is all we have to date.
Categories: Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Kelbaugh, Jack. "The Star: Anne Arundel's Only Black Movie Theater." Anne Arundel County History Notes 31 (October 1999): 3-4, 9.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County
Koenig, Linda Lee. The Vagabonds, America's Oldest Little Theater. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Baltimore City
Kracke, Robert D., and Carol Bench. "Through the Cracks of History: Those Shape Notes." Harford Historical Bulletin (Summer 1984): 38-46.
Notes: Hymnal scores and their use in Harford County.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Kraus, Joanna Halpert. A History of the Children's Theatre Association of Baltimore, Maryland >From 1943-1966. Ed.D. diss., Columbia University, 1972.
Categories: Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Krummel, D.W., Jean Geil, Doris Dyen, and Deane Root. Resources of American Music History, A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.
Notes: Here is a great single resource by which to determine where in Maryland one might find collections of music and music-related archival materials. The authors describe the contents of twenty-four Maryland repositories, from libraries and historical societies to educational institutions and privately owned collections. An excellent index allows searching for Maryland-related items being held in other states, too.
LaRoche, Gerard. "Music at Riversdale." Riversdale Letter 12 (Summer 1995): 2-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
"Last Drive-In Theater." Glades Star 7 (March 1995): 523-27.
Lathroum, Stephen. "Renaissance Man." Annapolis 7 (October 1993): 15, 65.
Categories: Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
Levy, Lester S. "Recollections of a Sheet Music Collector." Notes 32 (March 1976): 491-502.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Lichtenwanger, William. "The Music of 'The Star-Spangled Banner': From Ludgate Hill to Capitol Hill." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 34 (July 1977): 136-70.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
"Local Bagpipe Band Marks 20th Anniversary." Glades Star 9 (September 1999): 106-9.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Garrett County
Lowen, Sara. "Polka Fever." Mid-Atlantic Country 15 (November 1994): 36-39, 76, 78.
Categories: Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century
McAllen, Peg. "Lawson Brass Instruments." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 50-54.
Categories: Music and Theater
McCloskey, William. "The Baltimore Opera: An Unobjective Look at 50-Plus Seasons." Peabody News, Sept./Oct. 1992.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century
McWilliams, Jane. The Progress of Refinement: A History of Theater in Annapolis. Annapolis: Colonial Players of Annapolis, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: the Eubie Blake Collection." Maryland Humanities (February 1994): 27.
Categories: African American, Music and Theater
Mellin, Jack. "Summer Community Theaters." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 6.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
Meyers, F. de Sales. "The 'Coney Band and the Golden Age of Municipal Bands." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 51-56.
Categories: Music and Theater