American Made Music Series
Explorations of music history, origins, development, and players. Recent titles include:
MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream;
The Jazz Image. Series editor: David Evans, Professor of Music at University of Memphis.
78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South
Africa and the Blues
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story
Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years
The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942
Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell
A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe
Earl Hooker, Blues Master
Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
The Guitar in America: Victorian Era to Jazz Age
Hank Williams, So Lonesome
He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of all Time
In Close Harmony: The Story of the Louvin Brothers
I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta
Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era
Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The Johnson Family Singers: We Sang for Our Supper
Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK
Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
Ladies of Soul
Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
Louisiana Fiddlers
Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods
The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978
Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream
The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History
The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition
Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
The Pilgrim Jubilees
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics
Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel
Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story
Saved by Song: A History of Gospel and Christian Music
Scotty And Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train
Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery
Shreveport Sounds in Black and White
Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland
The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built
The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built
Strike Songs of the Depression
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues
That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities
A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street
Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party
Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life