Traveling the High Way Home

John Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave y... Lees meer

Industrial Strength Bluegrass

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between ... Lees meer

Labor's Troubadour

Joe Glazer

• Paperback | Music in American Life
• For more than half a century, armed only with his guitar, reams of songs, and conviction, Glazer has marshaled the power of music to fight for union r... Lees meer

Long Lost Blues

Peter C Muir

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but b... Lees meer

Opera on the Road

Katherine K Preston

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• Katherine K. Preston leads the reader on an operatic tour of pre-Civil War America in this cultural study of what was, surprisingly, an almost ubiquit... Lees meer

Union Divided

Leta E Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• An in-depth account of the Black locals within the American Federation of Musicians In the 1910s and 1920s, Black musicians organized more than fifty ... Lees meer

The Lady Swings

Dottie Dodgion, Wayne Enstice

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships ... Lees meer

Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics

Phil Jamison

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story... Lees meer

Voices of the Jazz Age

Chip Deffaa

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• In Voices of the Jazz Age, Chip Deffaa interviews eight musicians who rose to popularity during the 1920s. Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Bix Beiderbecke,... Lees meer

Banjo Roots and Branches

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches , R... Lees meer

'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream

William H Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• Over time, the image of the Irish in the United States changed from that of hard-drinking Paddies to genial working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an I... Lees meer

The Bluegrass Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• In The Bluegrass Reader, Thomas Goldsmith joins his insights as a journalist with a lifetime of experience in bluegrass to capture the full story of t... Lees meer

Juilliard

Andrea Olmstead

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• Richard Rodgers. Miles Davis. Van Cliburn. Itzhak Perlman. Robin Williams, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone. Mandy Patinkin. For over a century, Juilliard ha... Lees meer

San Antonio Rose

Charles R Townsend

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• "Until Hank Williams came along, it was just Bob Willis," says Willie Nelson. "He was it. " And indeed he was, especially for the thousands in the Sou... Lees meer

Twentieth Century Drifter

Diane Diekman

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver who scored sixtee... Lees meer

Restless Giant

Bar Biszick-Lockwood

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• Restless Giant is a fascinating account of the life and times of Jean Aberbach, the elusive music publishing legend who, with his brother Julian, buil... Lees meer

Music of the First Nations

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors ... Lees meer

Hard Luck Blues

Rich Remsberg

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New ... Lees meer

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Musi... Lees meer

My Song Is My Weapon

Robbie Lieberman

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• A revealing exploration of the origins and development of People's Songs, Inc., "My Song Is My Weapon won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Robbie Lieberm... Lees meer

Cafe Society

Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Commi... Lees meer

Mormonism and Music

Michael Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• Music has flourished in the Mormon church since its beginning. Michael Hicks examines the direction that music's growth has taken since 1830. He looks... Lees meer

Lying in the Middle

Jake Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater's inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream... Lees meer

Traveling Home

Kiri Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Music in American Life
• A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how this vibrant musical tradition brings together Americans of wid... Lees meer