THE SELLING SOUND: THE RISE OF THE COUNTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY (book)
Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music. Listeners have been heavily invested in the "business...
View ArticleREADING COUNTRY MUSIC: STEEL GUITARS, OPRY STARS, AND HONKY TONK BARS (book)
Country music is an American original. Perhaps the most popular music in America today, it's also big business. Bringing together a varied cadre of scholars & critics, this analyzes the inner...
View ArticleSOUNDS OF THE NEW DEAL: TH E FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT IN THE WEST (book)
At its peak the Federal Music Project employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teaching, and folksong collection and transcription. Explores how...
View ArticleSOUTHERN SOUL-BLUES (book)
In this enlightening account of a neglected musical genre, Whiteis profiles some of the genre's leading artists, explores the evolution of modern soul-blues, and insists that soul-blues represents a...
View ArticleRING SHOUT, WHEEL ABOUT - THE RACIAL POLITICS OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN NORTH...
In this ambitious project, Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. White...
View ArticleTHE CREOLIZATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE: WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT AND THE ROOTS OF...
Examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks & music collection of painter William Sidney Mount as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface...
View ArticleYANKEE TWANG: COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC IN NEW ENGLAND (book)
Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's keen sense of the musical life, Murphy reveals the central role of country & western in the lives of working-class New Englanders. The...
View ArticleALAN LOMAX, ASSISTANT IN CHARGE: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LETTERS, 1935 - 1945...
Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the 20th century, recording Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, scores more. These letters, taken from his time...
View ArticleMISSISSIPPI HILL COUNTRY BLUES 1967 (book)
Offers a photographic chronicle of the author's journey through Mississippi with the aim of recording the music of such unrecorded artists as R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Othar Turner....
View ArticleDREAMS TO REMEMBER: OTIS REDDING, STAX RECORDS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF...
The author of "The Supremes: A Saga Of Motown Dreams" discusses soul icon Otis Redding and the southern music he helped popularize. Hardcover. ($27.95)
View ArticleHOT MUSIC, RAGMENTATION, AND THE BLUING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (book)
Explores the ways that African-American hot music - minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz and especially blues - emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the 19th century and ultimately dominated both...
View ArticleRHYTHMS OF RACE: CUBAN MUSICIANS AND THE MAKING OF LATINO NEW YORK CITY AND...
In her history of music and race in midcentury America, the author argues that Cuban Americans - through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs and television and film productions -...
View ArticleTHE PRODUCT OF OUR SOULS: RAGTIME, RACE, AND THE BIRTH OF THE MANHATTAN...
Explores how European and African-American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as "black music." Hardcover. ($32.50)
View ArticleCOUNTRY SOUL: MAKING MUSIC AND MAKING RACE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (book)
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same...
View ArticleFOLKSONGS OF ANOTHER AMERICA: FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST, 1937 -...
Book/CD set. America's Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk song traditions for more than two centuries....
View ArticleNO SIMPLE HIGHWAY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD (book)
Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, the author vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from...
View ArticleON HIGHWAY 61: MUSIC, RACE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL FREEDOM (book)
Traces the progression of music created by post - Civil War black Americans - from ragtime to blues and jazz - and the white followers who adopted and embraced diversity and the sound to create bop,...
View ArticleDO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE: THE WILD, OBSESSIVE HUNT FOR THE WORLD'S RAREST...
The volume is less about music or musicians than it is about collecting (primarily jazz and blues 78s) and collectors. While vinyl records have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, good 78s are...
View ArticleSURFING ABOUT MUSIC (book)
Examines the interrelationships of music and surfing, exploring different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai.i, its central...
View ArticleVERVE: THE SOUND OF AMERICA (book)
A popular jazz label draws on archival material to tell the full story of jazz, from the early 1930s to today, in a book with plenty of vintage images and ephemera. ($75.00)
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