Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music
by Barthes, Roland, Cage, John, Attali, Jacques, Baraka, Amiri, Armstrong, Louis, Becker, Howard S., Abbott, Lynn, Braun, Michael, Weisbard, Eric, Arnold, Gina, Booth, Stanley, Adorno, Theodor, Baker, Dorothy, Balliett, Whitney, Bangs, Lester, Berry, Chuck, Billings, William, Blesh, Rudi, Boyar, Burt, Boyar, Jane, Burchill, Julie, Campbell, Olive DameXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Cantwell, RobertXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Carpentier, AlejoXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Chang, JeffXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journa…