Bars, Blues, and Booze
Stories from the Drink House
True accounts from musicians, bar owners, and regulars at the crossroads of good times and despair
Country Boys and Redneck Women
New Essays in Gender and Country Music
Essays that overthrow stereotypes and demonstrate the genre’s power and mystique
Free Jazz/Black Power
For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and African American culture
Listen to This
Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
The first close critical treatment of the album that shook jazz with its electric sound and rock-influenced style
The Music of Multicultural America
Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States
The classic text on American musical expression, updated with four new chapters
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
A rediscovered treasury of old-time fiddle music with over 300 musical annotations
Talking New Orleans Music
Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City
Interviews with and beautiful photography of eleven great musicians and their inspiring city
Songs of Sorrow
Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States
The untold story behind the creation of the classic songbook Slave Songs of the United States
Mario Lanza
Singing to the Gods
A biography of the Italian American tenor, star of The Great Caruso and inspiration to the Three Tenors
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a country music masterpiece
Transatlantic Roots Music
Folk, Blues, and National Identities
Essays that track identity and authenticity in blues and folk music that crossed the ocean
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
The first book to track racial uplift ideology's effect on classical music
Lonesome Melodies
The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
The first biography of two integral bluegrass innovators and touchstones of old-time country music authenticity