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New Publications George M. Eberhart American Music in the Twentieth Cen­ nese-American name styles and customs, and tury, by Kyle Gann (400 pages, December identifying a Chinese surname character. An 1997), surveys the art music composed in the appendix provides a list of common surnames United States from the tone poems of Charles and their Chinese characters. $32.50. Ives to the total ism of Mikel Rouse. Writ ten McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0418-3. for the general reader with a basic knowledge If Chinese ethnic groups are your inter­ of music, the book covers ultramodernism in est, consult An Ethnohistoricαl Dictio­ the 1920s, populism in the 1930s, experimen- nary of China, by James S. Olson (434 talism, atonality, John Cage and the New York pages, March 1998). Every significant anthro­ School, post-Cage conceptualism, minimalism, pological and linguistic group is described new romanticism, electronic music, rock and here, not just the 55 minority “nationalities” jazz fusion, postminimalism, and totalism. Each officially recognized by the People’s Repub­ chapter offers a discussion of recommended lic. An extensive essay on China’s largest musical examples and concise composer bi­ ethnic group, the Han, covers their history ographies. An essential guide for those who from the Neolithic to the 1990s. $89.50. want to move beyond Mahler and Brahms. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-28853-4. $39.00. Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-864655-X. Schirmer has also published a revised, con­ The International Director of Univer­ cise edition of Daniel Kingman’s American sity Histories, edited by Carol Summerfield Music: A Panorama (433 pages, March and Mary Elizabeth Devine (780 pages, April 1998), which covers folk and ethnic music, 1998), is actually a collection of historical es­ blues, country, rock, popular sacred music, says on 168 selected academic institutions pop from colonial times to the present, jazz, worldwide. The editors have chosen diverse and classical music. Though written as a text­ types of universities with differing education book, it is equally useful as a quick reference requirements, regional demands, and philo­ source. $25.00. ISBN 0-02-864614-2. sophical goals. Slightly less than half are U.S. schools, allowing for comparisons with a wide Charging and Collecting Fees and set of overseas counterparts. Histories of older Fines, by Murray S. Martin and Betsy Park institutions are not limited to 19th- and 20th- (146 pages, May 1998), offers suggestions for century summaries; for example, the entry for a cost-benefit analysis of fee structures for cir­ Cairo’s Al-Azhar University starts right in at its culation services, photocopying, interlibrary founding in 972 A.D. A comprehensive index loan, reference services, Internet access, co­ enhances access. $125.00. Fitzroy Dearborn, operative library services, and other library cost 70 E. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60611, ISBN 1- centers. The authors’ approach is a practical 884964-23-0. one, with many checklists and worksheets. $49.95. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 1-55570-318-6. A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia, by Stanley Wertheim (413 pages, December Chinese American Names: Tradition 1997), catalogs the life, writings, friends, and and Transition, by Emma Woo Louie (230 activities of this American journalist and pages, July 1998), explains the mysteries of novelist who, though best known for his how Chinese immigrants acquired American­ Civil War novel The Red Badge of Cour­ ized names like Lee, Woo, or Chen. The first age (1895), was one of the first to write section of the book describes traditional Chi­ realistically about urban slums and the re­ nese naming conventions, while others ex­ treat of the frontier. This well-organized and plore names as clues to regional origin, Chi- comprehensive guide is an essential pur­ chase for collections of American history and George M. Eberhart is associate editor of American fiction of the 1890s. $85.00. 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