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2022 American Musicological Society / Society for Ethnomusicology / Society for Music Theory

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Improvising the Score

Improvising the Score

By Gretchen L. Carlson
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year—Honorable Mention Recipient

On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score ...

The World of Marty Stuart

The World of Marty Stuart

By Marty Stuart
Foreword by Ken Burns
Introduction by Katie Blount
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Contributions by Scott B. Bomar, Rick Bragg, Dayton Duncan, David Fricke, Holly George-Warren, Peter Guralnick, and Michael Streissguth

In the late 1960s in Philadelphia, Mississippi, nine-year-old Marty ...

Making Tracks

Making Tracks

By Scott Billington
Foreword by Peter Guralnick
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily ...

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

By Mat Callahan
Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley
Afterword by Kali Akuno
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some examples of which are sung to this day. While the ...

Following the Drums

Following the Drums

By John M. Shaw
Categories: African American Studies
Series: American Made Music Series

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West ...

Voices of Black Folk

Voices of Black Folk

By Terri Brinegar
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

In the late 1920s, Reverend ...

Hearing Brazil

Hearing Brazil

By Jonathon Grasse
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping ...

The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

By Bernard F. Dick
Categories: Film Studies

Beginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular ...

The Real Ambassadors

The Real Ambassadors

By Keith Hatschek
Foreword by Yolande Bavan
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Winner of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award
Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound ...

Performing Racial Uplift

Performing Racial Uplift

By Juanita Karpf
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, Juanita Karpf rediscovers the career of Black activist ...