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
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century
Knowing Jazz
Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues