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Country Music: A Very Short Introduction presents a compelling overview of the music and its impact …

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In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths—the gleefully…

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Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper-folk matriarch and …

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous-even revolutionary-A&R man and music …

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic e…

2012 American Library Association Notable Children's Book. 2012 YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Yo…

A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music…

Once upon a time, children's music was just Mother Goose, nursery songs, and lullabies. And then cam…

Florence Beatrice Price was always breaking barriers—especially when it came to music. Raised in the…

Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s &bu…

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out …

A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America a…

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.In 2020, guitar expert Joh…

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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and o…

In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the 1970…

A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of class…

Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II Amer…

Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of …

Throughout his career, Johnny Cash was depicted — and depicted himself — as a walking co…

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The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographe…

Platinum-award winning country music star Scotty McCreery shares his journey from North Carolina to …

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A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explo…

The crowd sways to the melodic strumming of a bossa nova guitarist. A vocalist belts out lyrics that…

By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style op…

Always The Music is the fascinating story of Morris’ personal metamorphosis through the highest leve…

The Music Man stands as one of the greatest achievements in American musical theatre, but few know a…

One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of American music i…

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who capt…

A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize…