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Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
University of Texas Press
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
By Tara López
University of Texas Press
An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
Quantum Criminals
Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
By Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay
University of Texas Press
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.
You're with Stupid
kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
By Bruce Adams
University of Texas Press
An insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s.
Maybe We'll Make It
A Memoir
By Margo Price
University of Texas Press
Country music star Margo Price shares the story of her struggle to make it in an industry that preys on its ingenues while trying to move on from devastating personal tragedies.
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
By Lynn Melnick
University of Texas Press
A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton’s music and story.
Black Country Music
Listening for Revolutions
University of Texas Press
How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation.
T Bone Burnett
A Life in Pursuit
By Lloyd Sachs
University of Texas Press
This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.
The Running Kind
Listening to Merle Haggard
University of Texas Press
A new and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters.
Woman Walk the Line
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Edited by Holly Gleason
University of Texas Press
In this collection of personal essays, a diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country artists who have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Taylor Swift.
Who Got the Camera?
A History of Rap and Reality
By Eric Harvey
University of Texas Press
An illuminating cultural study arguing that, in the late 1980s, the reality TV of Cops and the reality rap of “Fuck tha Police” were two sides of the same coin, redefining popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers
University of Texas Press
In the first full-length book on the Drive-By Truckers, Deusner examines the southern spaces that shaped the band’s ideas of what music can say and do while also discovering how their music shifted the way we view the modern South.
Seeing Sideways
A Memoir of Music and Motherhood
University of Texas Press
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rat Girl, this beautifully written memoir takes readers on an emotional journey through the author’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood.
Fangirls
Scenes from Modern Music Culture
By Hannah Ewens
University of Texas Press
Touching on her own experiences as a music obsessive, Hannah Ewens captures the joy and community of young women bonded by their musical fandoms and the impact these fangirls have on the artists they love.
Glitter Up the Dark
How Pop Music Broke the Binary
By Sasha Geffen
University of Texas Press
From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.
Go Ahead in the Rain
Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
University of Texas Press
The first chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest—the visionary, award-winning group whose jazz-infused records and socially conscious lyrics revolutionized rap in the early 1990s.
A Spy in the House of Loud
New York Songs and Stories
By Chris Stamey
University of Texas Press
A cofounder of the dB’s, Chris Stamey re-creates the music scene in late 1970s New York City, recalling the birth of punk and other new streams of electric music as well as the making of the cult albums Stands for deciBels and Repercussion.
Chrissie Hynde
A Musical Biography
By Adam Sobsey
University of Texas Press
With new insights into her life and music and fascinating details about the making of all of her albums, this is the first book about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Chrissie Hynde, the leader of The Pretenders.
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