James Jamerson tumultuous life and musical brilliance are explored in this book through hundreds of interviews, forty-nine transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances and more than fifty rarely seen photographs.
When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading for countless musicians, lovers of American Song, and fans of Alec Wilder. Now, in a 50th anniversary edition, popular music scholar Robert Rawlins br…
"With a claim on artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Jason Isbell, Americana can be hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. John Milward's Americanaland is filled with the enduring performers and vivid stories that are at the heart of Americana. At base a hybrid of rock and…
"Lust. Of all things. Black." -- The black male show -- Amiri Baraka -- Wayne Shorter -- Jimi Hendrix -- John Coltrane -- Gone fishing: remembering Lester Bowie -- The black artists' group -- Butch Morris -- Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the history of our future -- Lonnie H…
"Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb collaborated for more than forty years, longer than any other composer-lyricist partnership in Broadway history. Of the more than twenty musicals they wrote, their two most successful works to reach Broadway, Cabaret and Chicago, also …
The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican-American community in East Los Angeles. With the recent "Eastside Renaissance" in the area, b…
This book examines the mediating role that Pepsi's commercials have played in forging lasting relationships between the American music and advertising industries from its 1939 "Nickel, Nickel" jingle to its pair of 2011-2012 X Factor commercials. It historicizes and analyzes wid…
