Harry Potter and the Other

Edited by Sarah Park Dahlen & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Named a 2023 Honour Book by the International Research Society for Children's Literature

Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia ...

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 Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

By Simon Young
Categories: Folklore

Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends ...

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Edited by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, and Megan Feifer
Foreword by Nadège T. Clitandre
Afterword by Thadious M. Davis
Categories: Diaspora Studies

Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan ...

Social TV

By Cory Barker
Categories: Media Studies

Winner of the 2023 SCMS Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Outstanding Book Award sponsored by the Center for Entertainment & Media Industries

On March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television ...

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

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 ...

Conversations with Diane di Prima

Edited by David Stephen Calonne
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima ...

The Eye That Is Language

By Danièle Pitavy-Souques
Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
Categories: Literature
Series: Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937–2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty’s view of the world and her international literary ...

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 ...