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SAM 2020

We're so excited to participate in this year's Society for American Music Virtual Exhibit! You can browse the selection of books we'd planned to take to the meeting below. As a bonus, ALL of our Music and Ethnomusicology titles are 30% off when you apply code VIRTUALSAM2020 at checkout! You'll also receive free shipping with a $50 minimum purchase!

If you have a book proposal, please review our staff listing and send an email to the acquiring editor best suited for your project. Be sure to follow our submission guidelines. Please note that we are working from home and can only accept digital submissions at this time. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Publish-With-Us

 

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The Blue Sky Boys

During the 1940s, country music was rapidly evolving from traditional songs and string band styles to honky-tonk, western swing, and bluegrass, via radio, records, and film. The Blue Sky Boys, brothers ...

Selling Folk Music

Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied ...

Godfather of the Music Business

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Record Labels – Best History (2017)

This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in ...

Country Boys and Redneck Women

Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could ...

Free Jazz/Black Power

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony ...

Listen to This

Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its ...

Creating Jazz Counterpoint

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz. " Much of the information that the book relied on came from a ...

The Music of Multicultural America

The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer ...

Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier ...

Songs of Sorrow

In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts ...