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link to catalog page BOYER, The Golden Age of Gospel Author: Text by Horace Clarence Boyer Photography by Lloyd Yearwood
Pub Date: 2000

The best and most definitive history of gospel music in the United States, enhanced by the emotion-packed photos of Lloyd Yearwood   learn more...

link to catalog page CONNOR, Imagining Grace

Imagining Grace

Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition

Author: Kimberly Rae Connor
Pub Date: March 2000

Extends the tradition of the slave narrative to contemporary artists and demonstrates how they all work toward a “liberation theology”--even though it may not be traditionally Christian or sacred.   learn more...

link to catalog page COHEN, Long Steel Rail

Long Steel Rail

The Railroad in American Folksong (2d ed.)

Author: Norm Cohen
Pub Date: 2000

The largest and most authoritative source on railroad folksong   learn more...

link to catalog page PADEN, Medieval Lyric

Medieval Lyric

Genres in Historical Context

Author: Edited by William D. Paden
Pub Date: April 2000

Opens up not only a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric, this book also re-examines the notion of “genre” itself, showing that it should be considered as an historical phenomenon influenced by the cultures in which the lyrics arose.   learn more...

link to catalog page MOISALA, Music and Gender Author: Edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond
Pub Date: 2000

International scholars engage in a conversation about music and gender in various cross-culture case studies in an effort to determine how music can help individuals, groups, and nations bridge difficult times of changing values.   learn more...

link to catalog page HICKS, Sixties Rock

Sixties Rock

Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions

Author: Michael Hicks
Pub Date: Cloth: 1999; Paper: 2000

Traces “garage” and “psychedelic” rock from the 50’s through the sixties, unfolds the history and the sonic structures of some of rock’s core repertoire   learn more...

link to catalog page BERRY, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles Author: Chad Berry
Pub Date: 2000

Examines one of the largest internal immigrations in the U.S., allowing those migrating workers the opportunity to talk about how their migration influenced their lives and futures   learn more...

link to catalog page AQUILA, That Old-Time Rock & Roll

That Old-Time Rock & Roll

A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63

Author: Richard Aquila
Pub Date: 2000

Great fun, this illustrated, fact-filled trivia guidebook to the first decade of rock & roll, breezily written (but painstakingly accurate), will take the baby boomer down a musical memory lane strewn with genuine “golden-oldies.”   learn more...

link to catalog page RUBIN, Voices of a People

Voices of a People

The Story of Yiddish Folksong

Author: Ruth Rubin
Pub Date: 2000

A classic study of Yiddish Folksongs of all types in Yiddish and English with notes and annotations that give insight into the larger story of the Jewish experience.   learn more...

link to catalog page STURMAN, Zarzuela

Zarzuela

Spanish Operetta, American Stage

Author: Janet L. Sturman
Pub Date: October 2000

The first book on this re-emerging Hispanic art-form, bridging classical and popular music, traces the Zarzuela from its beginnings in 17th century Spain to its burgeoning new awareness via the Internet and its role in defining American urban ethnicity.   learn more...

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