JewishMusic Studies 2021-22 2021 HIGHLIGHTS COLLECTING MUSIC IN THE ARAN ISLANDS
STONE FREE Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966 – June 1967 Jas Obrecht
A Century of History and Practice Deirdre Ní Chonghaile Jul 2021 352pp, 19 b&w illustrations, 6 musical examples 9780299332402 Hardback US$79.95
By presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understanding the motivations and training (or lack thereof) of individual music collectors significantly informs how we should approach their work and contextualise their place in the folk music canon. University of Wisconsin Press
WAYFARING STRANGERS
Feb 2022 256pp 9781469669397 Paperback US$24.00
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. This celebratory account is a must-read for Hendrix fans. The University of North Carolina Press
Foreword by Dolly Parton
The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, Second Edition Fiona Ritchie & Doug Orr with Darcy Orr
Aug 2021 384pp, 124 illustrations, 7 maps 9781469664187 Paperback US$30.00
From the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the US. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans. The University of North Carolina Press
RAP & HIP HOP CHRONICLING STANKONIA
FOR THE CULTURE
Regina N. Bradley
Edited by Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey & Adolphus G. Belk, Jr.
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Feb 2021 136pp 9781469661964 Paperback US$19.95 9781469661957 Hardback US$95.00
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. The University of North Carolina Press
CRITICAL EXCESS
Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age J. Griffith Rollefson May 2021 234pp 9780472054879 Paperback US$24.95 9780472074877 Hardback US$75.00
Tracking Pop
Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed ‘luxury rap' album centred on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture. This work performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on the album. University of Michigan Press
Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice Feb 2022 344pp 9780472132867 Hardback US$80.00
Music and Social Justice
Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. University of Michigan Press
SAMPLING AND REMIXING BLACKNESS IN HIP-HOP THEATER AND PERFORMANCE Nicole Hodges Persley
Oct 2021 296pp 9780472055111 Paperback US$34.95 9780472075119 Hardback US$80.00
AN OUTKAST READER
Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
Asks us to consider who has the right to claim Hip-Hop's blackness when blackness itself is a complicated mixtape that offers both consent and resistance to transgressive and inspiring acts of performance.
Edited by Regina N. Bradley
University of Michigan Press
EBOOK AVAILABLE
Oct 2021 248pp 9780820360133 Paperback US$29.95 9780820360157 Hardback US$114.95
Music of the American South Series
Takes OutKast's aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. University of Georgia Press
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ROCK & POP DELBERT McCLINTON
MAPPING WOODY GUTHRIE
SHADES OF SPRINGSTEEN
Diana Finlay Hendricks
Apr 2022 178pp 9780806189680 Paperback US$19.95 9780806161785 Hardback US$26.95
John Massaro
One of the Fortunate Few Jul 2021 232pp, 30 colour illustrations, 30 b&w photos 9781623499310 Paperback US$19.95
Will Kaufman
John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music
American Popular Music Series
Chronicles McClinton’s path through a free-range childhood; an early career in the desegregated roadhouses along Fort Worth’s Jacksboro Highway; headlining shows in England with a little-known Liverpool quartet called The Beatles; and heading back to Texas in time for the progressive movement.
Woody Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs. Here, Will Kaufman examines the artist's career. University of Oklahoma Press
Texas A&M University Press
POP MUSIC, MEDIA, AND YOUTH CULTURES
FOURTH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK A History of the Promised Land, Revised and Expanded Daniel Wolff Nov 2021 224pp 9781978820401 Hardback US$25.95
Bruce Springsteen brought international attention to the Jersey shore by naming his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. But the real Asbury Park has an even more fascinating story behind it. Featuring exclusive interviews with Springsteen, this work uncovers the history of how this resort town came to epitomize the American dream.
Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity Jul 2021 272pp 9781978816169 Paperback US$24.95 9781978816176 Hardback US$64.95
Although never having met Bruce Springsteen, connecting with the poet/ rock star has been a seminal event in John Massaro's life. Here, Massaro draws upon his years of research, and documents a truly mutual connection linking two related stories: Springsteen's and his own. Rutgers University Press INCLUDES AUDIO CD
TALKING GUITAR
From the Beat Revolution to the Bit Generation
Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Lello Savonardo
Jas Obrecht
May 2021 152pp 9788831322256 Paperback US$29.95
Feb 2022 320pp 9781469669373 Paperback US$29.95
Starting from the main theories about the sociology of music, the aim of this book is to investigate social changes, youth cultures, media, and pop music.
In this lively collection of interviews, music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.
Bocconi University Press
The University of North Carolina Press
Not available for sale in Italy
Rutgers University Press
COUNTRY, FOLK & BLUES BLIND JOE DEATH'S AMERICA John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent George Henderson May 2021 236pp 9781469660783 Paperback US$27.95 9781469660776 Hardback US$95.00
Mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist. The University of North Carolina Press
KING OF THE DELTA BLUES SINGERS The Life and Music of Charlie Patton, Second Edition Edward Komara & Gayle Dean Wardlow Jan 2022 277pp 9781621906612 Paperback US$35.00
Charles K. Wolfe Music Series
Charlie Patton is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues, but over the decades, his contributions to blues music have been overshadowed. This completely revised second edition presents the story of Charlie Patton and his legacy. The University of Tennessee Press
LISTENING TO THE LOMAX ARCHIVE
LOOKS LIKE RAIN
The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s
The Songwriting Legacy of Mickey Newbury
Jonathan W. Stone
Brian T. Atkinson
Nov 2021 240pp 9780472038558 Paperback US$24.95
In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the ‘American Negro’ in several southern African-American prisons. This volume asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises.
Jun 2021 240pp, 29 b&w photos 9781623499266 Hardback US$28.00
John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music
LIVE AT JACKSON STATION
Music journalist Brian Atkinson has interviewed artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, and many others to learn how Mickey Newbury's influence continues to shape the musical and artistic approach of both seasoned and newer performers.
Daniel M. Harrison
SLIM HARPO
Jan 2021 256pp 9781643361451 Paperback US$24.99
Martin Hawkins
University of Michigan Press
Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar
In the 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club was a late-night roadhouse filled with people who gathered to listen to live music. In this narrative, Jackson Station emerges as a cultural kaleidoscope that served as an oasis of tolerance and diversity in a time and place that often suffered from bigotry and violence. The University of South Carolina Press
Texas A&M University Press
Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge Apr 2022 416pp 9780807177297 Paperback US$29.95
In this biography of the renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo’s rural upbringing, his professional development, and his national success. LSU Press
WORLD MUSIC BAHLABELELELANI – WHY DO THEY SING?
MUSIC AND URBAN LIFE IN BAROQUE GERMANY
Nompumelelo Zondi
Mar 2022 320pp 9780813947013 Hardback US$49.50
Gender and Power in Contemporary Women's Songs Apr 2021 208pp 9781869144647 Paperback US$19.95
Tanya Kevorkian
Focuses on the nature of women's contemporary songs in the rural community of Zwelibomvu, near Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
University of Virginia Press
Many Voices, One Horizon
Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet et al Oct 2021 328pp 9780824892562 Paperback US$30.00
Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, the essays collected in this volume raise common themes in terms of the pedagogies and practices used, pointing collectively toward one horizon of approach. University of Hawai'i Press
COMPOSING FOR THE REVOLUTION Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism Joshua H. Howard Oct 2021 292pp 9780824892593 Paperback US$28.00
Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
Explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement, and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. University of Hawai'i Press
CZECH SONGS IN TEXAS Frances Barton & John K. Novak
Aug 2021 256pp, 15 b&w illustrations, 62 music notations 9780806168876 Hardback US$45.00
American Popular Music Series
On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. This work includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. University of Oklahoma Press
The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music
Studies in Early Modern German History
Offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development.
COMMUNITY MUSIC IN OCEANIA
THE SLAVE SUBLIME
NETWORKING THE RUSSIAN DIASPORA Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai Hon-Lun Helan Yang, Simo Mikkonen & John Winzenburg Oct 2021 286pp, 28 b&w illustrations 9780824889784 Paperback US$30.00
Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
As a pioneering study of the Russian community, this work examines its musical activities and influence in Shanghai. University of Hawai'i Press
RUDE CITIZENSHIP Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power Larisa Kingston Mann Mar 2022 240pp 9781469667249 Paperback US$29.95 9781469667232 Hardback US$95.00
Stacy J. Lettman Jun 2022 272pp 9781469668086 Paperback US$27.95 9781469668079 Hardback US$95.00
Explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. The University of North Carolina Press
SONOROUS WORLDS
Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Yana Stainova Oct 2021 264pp 9780472132737 Hardback US$75.00
Music and Social Justice
El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. This work is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to socio-political crisis. University of Michigan Press
SOUNDING DISSENT
Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism Stephen R. Millar Apr 2022 264pp 9780472038879 Paperback US$34.95
Music and Social Justice
Larisa Kingston Mann - DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer - identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.
Draws on original in-depth interviews as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland.
The University of North Carolina Press
University of Michigan Press
SALSA CONSCIENTE
Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio Andrés Espinoza Agurto Dec 2021 340pp 9781611864014 Paperback US$34.95
Latinos in the United States
Explores the developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musicopoetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. Michigan State University Press
JAZZ HARLEM NIGHTS
The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age Deirdre O'Connell Nov 2021 432pp 9780522877649 Paperback US$34.99
From the wild jazz clubs of Prohibition-era LA to Indigenous women discovering a new world of black resistance, this anatomy of a scandal-fuelled frame-up brings into focus a vibrant cast of characters from Australia's Jazz Age. Melbourne University Publishing
HISTORY AND THEORY COOL TOWN
MAY WE FOREVER STAND
How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands Eric Sean Crawford Oct 2021 248pp, 20 b&w illustrations, 99 printed music items 9781643361901 Paperback US$29.99
Tells the story of the Black National Anthem as it travelled from South to North, from civil rights to black power, and from countless family reunions to Carnegie Hall and the Oval Office.
Jan 2021 304pp, 20 photos 9780472054718 Paperback US$39.95 9780472074716 Hardback US$90.00
SONGS OF SONDERLING
Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938-1945
MUSIC-MAKING IN PRISONS
Listening to Incarcerated Voices Mary L. Cohen & Stuart P. Duncan
Jonathan L. Friedmann & John F. Guest
Jun 2022 240pp 9781771123372 Paperback US$34.99
Jul 2021 224pp 9781682830796 Hardback US$34.95
Traces the history of music programmes in US prisons, and engages in dialogue with current programs to hypothesise how music functions in carceral settings.
Modern Jewish History
Tells the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Texas Tech University Press
RECORD CULTURES
SOUNDING TOGETHER
The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry
Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century
Kyle Barnett Oct 2021 332pp 9780472038770 Paperback US$34.95
The University of South Carolina Press
Philip Auslander
LSU Press
The University of North Carolina Press
Traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth-century American South.
Performing Musical Persona
Tin Pan Alley issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. Here, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South.
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
9781643361895 Hardback US$89.99
IN CONCERT
Apr 2022 296pp 9780807177358 Paperback US$25.00
Oct 2021 296pp 9781469666099 Paperback US$18.00
Ferris and Ferris Books
GULLAH SPIRITUALS
John Bush Jones
Imani Perry
Feb 2021 384pp, 37 illustrations 9781469664057 Paperback US$20.00
The University of North Carolina Press
Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South
A History of the Black National Anthem
Grace Elizabeth Hale
In Athens, Georgia in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. This work reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow.
REINVENTING DIXIE
Edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett & Carol J. Oja
Tells the story of how early US commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history.
Sep 2021 376pp 9780472054336 Paperback US$29.95
A book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the US in the early twenty-first century. This book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together.
University of Michigan Press
Musical performance is a social interaction between musicians and their audiences. Here, Philip Auslander addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such as light shows.
University of Michigan Press
University of Michigan Press
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