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Going Back to T-Town

Going Back to T-Town

The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band

by Carmen Fields

In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance, extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s. This is an enlightening account of how this talented musician and businessman navigated the hurdles of racial segregation during the Jim Crow era.

Nashville City Blues

Nashville City Blues

My Journey as an American Songwriter

by James Talley

Foreword by Peter Guralnick

Nashville City Blues offers hard-won wisdom for any aspiring artist motivated to work hard and handle whatever setbacks might follow. Readers will also gain valuable understanding about the country music industry and the inescapable links between commerce and artistry.
 

Traveler

Traveler

The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien

by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone

Written with O’Brien’s full cooperation and the input of family, friends, colleagues, and critics, Traveler provides the first complete, behind-the-scenes picture of a thoroughly American self-made musical genius—the boy who grew up listening to country artists at the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree and ended up charting a new course through American music.
 

Mapping Woody Guthrie

Mapping Woody Guthrie

by Will Kaufman

To map Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources—including letters, essays, song lyrics, and notebooks—housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman’s intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.
 

Czech Songs in Texas

Czech Songs in Texas

by Frances Barton and John K. Novak

Foreword by James P. Leary

Czech Songs in Texas includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. The songs themselves are beloved heirlooms ranging from ceremonial music with origins in Moravian wedding traditions to exuberant polkas celebrating the pleasures of life.

Singing the Songs of My Ancestors

Singing the Songs of My Ancestors

The Life and Music of Helma Swan, Makah Elder

by Linda J. Goodman and Helen Swan

Foreword by Bill Holm

Drawing on more than twenty years of research and oral history interviews, Linda J. Goodman in Singing the Songs of My Ancestors presents a somewhat different point of view-that of the anthropologist/ethnomusicologist interested in Makah culture and history as well as the changing musical and ceremonial roles of Makah men and women.

Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts

Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts

The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story

by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone

In Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together.

Trills in the Bach Cello Suites

Trills in the Bach Cello Suites

A Handbook for Performers

by Jerome Carrington

Foreword by Lynn Harrell

Bursting with new ideas, Trills in the Bach Cello Suites offers insight for performers and music theorists alike. It will aid in the interpretation of these classic works as it renews our appreciation for Bach’s genius.

Listening to Rosita

Listening to Rosita

The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

by Mary Ann Villarreal

In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.

Talking Machine West

Talking Machine West

A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley's Western Recordings, 1902–1918

by Michael A. Amundson

Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918.Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.

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