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HUMN 4345: History of American Folk Music
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78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South
by
John Minton
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1934110191
Publication Date: 2008
The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!
by
Helena Simonett (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252078713
Publication Date: 2012
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia
by
Cecelia Conway
Call Number: 781.62 .C66 1995
ISBN: 0870498932
Publication Date: 1995
Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
by
Craig Havighurst
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252032578
Publication Date: 2007
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
by
Philip F. Gura; James F. Bollman
Call Number: 787.88 .G87 1999
ISBN: 0807824844
Publication Date: 1999
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
by
Mark Slobin
Call Number: E-books
ISBN: 0520227182
Publication Date: 2002
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years
by
Eric Von Schmidt; Jim Rooney
Call Number: 781.62 .V66 1994
ISBN: 0870239252
Publication Date: 1994
Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
by
Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816679266
Publication Date: 2014
Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
by
Dick Spottswood; Stephen Wade (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1604735775
Publication Date: 2010
Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
by
Paul Oliver
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 046500881X
Publication Date: 2009
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
by
Stephen Calt
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252076605
Publication Date: 2009
The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience
by
Stephen Wade
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252036883
Publication Date: 2012
Bessie
by
Chris Albertson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0300107560
Publication Date: 2005
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
by
W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807871842
Publication Date: 2011
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
by
John Strausbaugh
Call Number: 305.896 .S77 2007
ISBN: 1585425931
Publication Date: 2007
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
by
Amy Absher
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0472119176
Publication Date: 2014
Bluegrass: A History
by
Neil V. Rosenberg
Call Number: 781.642 .R67 2005
ISBN: 0252072456
Publication Date: 2005
Bluegrass Breakdown
by
Robert Cantwell
Call Number: 781.642 .C26 2003
ISBN: 0252071174
Publication Date: 2002
Bob Dylan: The Lyrics
by
Bob Dylan; Julie Nemrow (Editor); Lisa Nemrow (Editor); Christopher Ricks (Editor)
Call Number: 782.42164 .D95Lyr2 2016
ISBN: 1451648766
Publication Date: 2016
The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
by
César Miguel Rondón; Frances R. Aparicio (Translator); Jackie White (Translator)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807858595
Publication Date: 2008-
A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music
by
Kristine M. McCusker (Editor); Diane Pecknold (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1578066786
Publication Date: 2004
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
by
Mark F. DeWitt
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1604730900
Publication Date: 2008
Cashville: Dilution of Original Country Music Identity Through Increasing Commercialization
by
Stephanie Schäfer
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3842878451
Publication Date: 2012
Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
by
Nick Tosches
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0306807130
Publication Date: 1996
Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost
by
Tony Russell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0199732663
Publication Date: 2010
Country Music Records
by
Tony Russell; Bob Pinson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195366212
Publication Date: 2008
Country Music U. S. A. : A Fifty-Year History
by
Bill C. Malone
Call Number: 784.0973 M257c
ISBN: 0292783779
Publication Date: 1968
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
by
Richard A. Peterson
Call Number: 781.642 .P48 1997
ISBN: 9780226662855
Publication Date: 1999
Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World
by
Dale Cockrell; Don B. Wilmeth (Contribution by)
Call Number: 791.12 .C63 1997
ISBN: 0521560748
Publication Date: 1997
Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
by
Ronald D. Cohen
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 146963046X
Publication Date: 2016
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music
by
Deborah R. Vargas
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816673179
Publication Date: 2012
Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records
by
Amanda Petrusich
Call Number: 780.26 .P48 2014
ISBN: 145166706X
Publication Date: 2015
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
by
Gunther A. Schuller
Call Number: 781.57 S25
ISBN: 0195040430
Publication Date: 1986
El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.–Mexico Border
by
Mark Cameron Edberg
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 029270206X
Publication Date: 2004
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
by
Olive Dame Campbell (Editor); Cecil James Sharp (Editor)
Call Number: 781.62 .E54 1917
ISBN: 0548841071
Publication Date: 2008
Everyday Music
by
Alan B. Govenar; Paddy Bowman (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1603445285
Publication Date: 2012
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
by
Kip Lornell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1617032646
Publication Date: 2012
Folk-Songs of the South
by
John Harrington Cox (Editor); Alan Jabbour (Introduction by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1938228685
Publication Date: 2013
Folk Music and Modern Sound
by
William Ferris (Editor); Mary L. Hart (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1604731672
Publication Date: 2008
Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
by
Art Rosenbaum; Margo Rosenbaum; Pete Seeger (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0820306827
Publication Date: 1983
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
by
William Ferris
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807833258
Publication Date: 2009
The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age
by
Jeffrey J. Noonan
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1604738545
Publication Date: 2010
Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
by
James Revell Carr
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 025208019X
Publication Date: 2014
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
by
Anthony Harkins
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 019514631X
Publication Date: 2003
The History of Texas Music
by
Gary Hartman
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 160344002X
Publication Date: 2008
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
by
Phil Jamison
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252080815
Publication Date: 2015
I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues
by
Stephen Calt
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1556527462
Publication Date: 2008
If Beale Street Could Talk
by
Robert Cantwell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252075668
Publication Date: 2008
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition
by
Bernice Johnson Reagon; Bernice Reagon
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0803289839
Publication Date: 2001
Imagining Native America in Music
by
Michael V. Pisani
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0300108931
Publication Date: 2006
Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
by
Jeff Berglund (Editor); Jan Johnson (Editor); Kimberli Lee (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816509441
Publication Date: 2016
In Search of the Blues
by
Marybeth Hamilton
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0465018122
Publication Date: 2009
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans
by
Richard Brent Turner; Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 025322120X
Publication Date: 2009
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
by
Rick Kennedy
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 025300747X
Publication Date: 2013
Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
by
Leigh H. Edwards
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0253220610
Publication Date: 2009
Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop
by
Denise Sullivan
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1556528175
Publication Date: 2011
King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records
by
Jon Hartley Fox; Dave Alvin (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252034686
Publication Date: 2009
The Land Where the Blues Began
by
Alan Lomax
Call Number: 781.643 L6
ISBN: 1565847393
Publication Date: 2002
Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
by
Patrick Huber
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0807832251
Publication Date: 2008
Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong
by
Norm Cohen
Call Number: 782.42 .C64 2000
ISBN: 0252068815
Publication Date: 2000
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
by
Tim Brooks; Richard K. Spottswood
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252028503
Publication Date: 2004
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
by
Brian Harker
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195388402
Publication Date: 2011
Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
by
Tracey E. W. Laird
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0190469617
Publication Date: 2016
Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson
by
Alan Greenberg
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816680809
Publication Date: 2012
The Mandolin in America: The Full Story from Orchestras to Bluegrass to the Modern Revival
by
Walter Carter
Call Number: 787.84 .C27 2017
ISBN: 1495001539
Publication Date: 2016
Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
by
Barry Mazor
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195327624
Publication Date: 2009
Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
by
Loyal Jones
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0813190274
Publication Date: 2002
Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
by
Paul E. Beaudoin (Editor); Judith Tick
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195139887
Publication Date: 2008
The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States
by
Kip Lornell (Editor); Anne K. Rasmussen (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1496803744
Publication Date: 2016
Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America
by
Tara Browner (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780252022210
Publication Date: 2009
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History
by
Robert Springer (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1934110299
Publication Date: 2007
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
by
Lynn Abbott; Doug Seroff
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1578064996
Publication Date: 2003
A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings
by
David King Dunaway
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 081087718X
Publication Date: 2010
Pioneers of the Blues Revival
by
Steve Cushing
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252038339
Publication Date: 2014-06-10
Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri
by
Howard Wight Marshall
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0826219942
Publication Date: 2013
Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia
by
Gerald Milnes
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0813193265
Publication Date: 2009
Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House
by
Daniel E. Beaumont
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195395573
Publication Date: 2011
Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
by
Mark Allan Jackson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1578069157
Publication Date: 2007
Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California
by
Peter La Chapelle
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0520248899
Publication Date: 2007
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop
by
Guthrie P. Ramsey
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0520243331
Publication Date: 2004
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
by
Lynn Abbott; Doug Seroff
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1578069017
Publication Date: 2007
Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970
by
Ronald D. Cohen
Call Number: 781.62 .C64 2002
ISBN: 1558493468
Publication Date: 2002
Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music
by
Barry Mazor
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1613740212
Publication Date: 2014
Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
by
Nadine Hubbs
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0520280660
Publication Date: 2014
Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s
by
Ronald D. Cohen; Rachel Clare Donaldson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252080122
Publication Date: 2014
Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition
by
Robert Stone
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252077431
Publication Date: 2010
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
by
Adam Gussow
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226310981
Publication Date: 2002
See You at the Hall: Boston’s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance
by
Susan J. Gedutis; Mick Moloney (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1555536107
Publication Date: 2004
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
by
David Suisman
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0674064046
Publication Date: 2012
Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals
by
David King Dunaway; Molly Beer
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195378342
Publication Date: 2010-04-14
Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination
by
Erich Nunn; Riché Richardson (Contribution by); Jon Smith (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 082034737X
Publication Date: 2015
Southern Music/American Music
by
Bill C. Malone; David Stricklin
Call Number: 781.64 .M35 2003
ISBN: 081319055X
Publication Date: 2003
Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz
by
Rich Kienzle
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0415941032
Publication Date: 2003
The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built
by
Nathan D. Gibson; Don Pierce (As told to)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1617037400
Publication Date: 2013
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
by
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195341198
Publication Date: 2008
Strike Songs of the Depression
by
Timothy P. Lynch
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1934110361
Publication Date: 2007
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
by
Charles Hersch
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0226328686
Publication Date: 2009
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues
by
Shane K. Bernard
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0878058761
Publication Date: 1996
Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song
by
Edward P. Comentale
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252078926
Publication Date: 2013
Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music
by
Douglas Harrison
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252078578
Publication Date: 2012
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival
by
Robert S. Cantwell
Call Number: 781.62 .C36 1996
ISBN: 0674951328
Publication Date: 1996
Where Dead Voices Gather
by
Nick Tosches
Call Number: 781.643 .M55toc 2002
ISBN: 0316895377
Publication Date: 2002
Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California
by
Gerald W. Haslam; Alexandra Haslam Russell (Contribution by); Richard Chon (Contribution by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0520275055
Publication Date: 2012
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
by
Hazel Dickens; Bill C. Malone
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252075498
Publication Date: 2008
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
by
David Honeyboy Edwards
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1556523688
Publication Date: 2000
Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture
by
Barbara Ching
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195169425
Publication Date: 2003
Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England
by
Clifford R. Murphy
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0252038673
Publication Date: 2014
Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s
by
Krystyn R. Moon
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0813535077
Publication Date: 2004
Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World
by
Bart Plantenga
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0415939909
Publication Date: 2003
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