Anne Dhu McLucas, Editor

ROUNDTABLE: MUSIC, THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA
AND THE CULTIVATION OF REALITY

Radio Formats and the Transformation of Musical Style: Codes and Cultural Values in the Remaking of Tunes
John Wallace White

Source Music, Background Music, Fantasy and Reality in Early Sound Film
David Neumeyer

And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Syle and Semiosis in American Television Commercials
Ronald Rodman

VIEWPOINTS ON TEACHING

Improvisation in the Aural Curriculum: An Imperative
Kate Covington

Teaching Rap: Musings at Semester's End
Gail Hilson Woldu

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era
Michael V. Pisani

VIEWPOINTS ON ANALYSIS

Performance, Analysis, and Musical Imagining, Part II: Schumann's Kreisleriana, No. 2
Charles Fisk

Melodic Tendencies in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
Ken Stephenson

DIALOGUE

Letter to the Editor and Response
Carl S. Miller and Johann Buis

BOOK REVIEWS

Method of Organ Playing, by Harold Gleason
Carlton T. Russell

Turning Notes into Music, by Hans Lampl
Guy Urban

William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography, by Judith Anne Still, Michael J. Dabrishus, and Carolyn L. Quin
Catherine P. Smith

Review Essay of Five Music Appreciation Textbooks
Larry Worster