Transatlantic Roots Music
Presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk...
EAN: 9781628460643
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
Traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of...
EAN: 9781628460636
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of...
EAN: 9781628460605
Transatlantic Roots Music
Presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk...
EAN: 9781617032882
Melody Man
Joe Davis, the focus of The Melody Man enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which...
EAN: 9781617032769
Starday Story
This is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the...
EAN: 9781604738308
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
EAN: 9781617032295
Berimbau
The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial...
EAN: 9781617031953
Let the World Listen Right
In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite...
EAN: 9781617030529
78 Blues
When record men first travelled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these...
EAN: 9781617030420
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie...
EAN: 9781617030499
That's Got 'Em!
Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American...
EAN: 9781617037221
Exploring American Folk Music
Reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The...
EAN: 9781617032653
Saved by Song
Provides a sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, the book...
EAN: 9781617036415
Berimbau
The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial...
EAN: 9781604734058
Music and History
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to...
EAN: 9781604735208
Richard Dyer-Bennet
In the 1940s and ’50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most...
EAN: 9781604733600
That's Got 'Em!
Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American...
EAN: 9781604730999
Folk Music and Modern Sound
The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival...
EAN: 9781604731675
Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity
Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to...
EAN: 9781604732528
Pearl Harbor Jazz
A study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz...
EAN: 9781604732436
