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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.
Don't Suck, Don't Die
Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
By Kristin Hersh; Introduction by Amanda Petrusich
University of Texas Press
A haunting ode to a lost friend, this memoir by the acclaimed author of Rat Girl offers the most personal, empathetic look at the creative genius and often-tormented life of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt that is ever likely to be written.
Real Love, No Drama
The Music of Mary J. Blige
University of Texas Press
Tracing the whole sweep of Mary J. Blige’s career through the critically acclaimed 2014 album, The London Sessions, this is the first serious look at the music and cultural impact of one of the most important musical artists to emerge in the past quarter
Madonnaland
And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom
By Alina Simone
University of Texas Press
In the spirit of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, Madonnaland takes us on a revelatory road trip through the quirky hinterlands of celebrity and fandom and the quest to make music that matters in the face of relentless commercialism.
Los Lobos
Dream in Blue
By Chris Morris
University of Texas Press
From the East Los Angeles barrio to international stardom, Los Lobos traces the musical evolution of a platinum-selling, Grammy Award–winning band that has ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from traditional Mexican
The Flatlanders
Now It's Now Again
University of Texas Press
Spotlighting three legends of American music—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, The Flatlanders recounts the band’s epic forty-year journey from a living room in Lubbock, Texas, to the release of their extraordinary long-lost demo, The Odess
Ryan Adams
Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
University of Texas Press
A prominent music journalist with behind-the-scenes access chronicles the rise of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams from his North Carolina, alt-country roots with Whiskeytown to rock stardom, including stories about the making of the albums Strangers Almanac and Heartbreaker.
Dwight Yoakam
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
By Don McLeese
University of Texas Press
Award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam.
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