An Autobiographical Bibliography of Percussion Music

Description

Methodology in this interdisciplinary study incorporated viewing more than two hundred periodicals in University Library in the Learning Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, during the first three months of 2005. Thus, references taken involve that time frame or in the recent past. The author started at the beginning of the alphabet; that is, periodicals with titles starting with the letter A, and went to the letter J, whose publications for the most part started with the title word Journal. This encompassed well over two hundred bibliographic entries in the book and research notes, adding annotations that often include author memoirs. The result is an interdisciplinary view of percussion music. Many authors, editors and articles are cited, in a number of different fields, i.e. sociology, anthropology, health, physical and social sciences, natural resources, and the humanities. The author of this book has made an effort not to replicate the original works, but simply to use them as a stepping stone to further discussion. Therefore, both the bibliography and the associated references are important to the subject. The reader is invited to attend this tour of the periodical collection, and to enjoy its diversity, variety, threads of similarity, personal and professional memoirs that are related to the subject at hand, and to discover all the wonders that are available to the modern reader. Citations include a multicultural list of names from a multiplicity of nationalities and ancestral sources, coming together, for the most part, in the academy of post-secondary and higher education.