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Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes By Brigid Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

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Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes By Brigid Cohen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2025

Philip Gentry*
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, School of Music, Newark, DE, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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References

1 Brigid Cohen, Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

2 See, for example, Tamara Levitz, “The Unfinished Music of John and Yoko,” in Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, ed. Avital H Bloch and Lauri Umansky (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 217–39; Elizabeth Ann Lindau, “‘Mother Superior’: Maternity and Creativity in the Work of Yoko Ono,” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 20 (9 October 2016): 57–76; Shelina Brown, “Scream from the Heart: Yoko Ono's Rock and Roll Revolution,” Volume! La Revue Des Musiques Populaires 9, no. 2 (15 December 2012): 107–23.

3 Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003); Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2002); Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).

4 Tamara Levitz, Modernist Mysteries: Persephone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Benjamin Piekut, Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011).