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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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To Do This, You Must Know How

To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. ...

Transatlantic Roots Music

This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic ...

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from ...

Lonesome Melodies

Carter and Ralph Stanley—the Stanley Brothers—are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the ...

Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty ...

The Starday Story

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012)

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely ...

Ragged but Right

The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest ...

Saved by Song

Saved by Song returns to print with its sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, the book traces contemporary Christianity and Christian music to the sixteenth century and ...

Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930–1942

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Certificate of Merit (2013)

The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big ...